In Re Adoption of a Minor

MILLER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court denying a petition for adoption of an illegitimate infant. The single issue of the case is one of law, whether a natural mother, who has freely and voluntarily given consent to the adoption of her illegitimate child, can, without cause, withdraw that consent and thus prevent the adoption when, as in the present case, the adoptive parents have accepted the child, paid the expenses of prenatal and postnatal care, made a home for the child and in all respects satisfied the requirements of the law governing…