McDaniel's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Elizabeth. McDaniel and David McDaniel, being without children, applied for a child on November 4, 1909, to the Children’s Home Society of Pennsylvania, an institution incorporated for the purpose of receiving the custody of, controlling, maintaining, and exercising parental rights over the minor children of indigent, destitute and other parents. The important parts of the application under which children were placed by the home are as follows: The applicants were expected to be kind-hearted, humane, in sufficient financial circumstances to provide suitable food…