In re the Adoption of Potter
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Okanogan county, Chas. A. Johnson, Esq., judge pro tempore, entered March 19, 1914, denying a petition for an order of adoption, upon findings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
On the 23d day of November, 1910, one Elsie Potter gave birth to an illegitimate child. Nellie Myers, the petitioner and appellant herein, a caller at the place where the mother was staying, was informed that the mother, a girl only sixteen years old, had given birth to a child. Petitioner talked with the mother, who told her that she wanted her to “take it away and get rid of it. I don’t *618want it .and I don’t want to see it, and get it away just as quick as you can.” Appellant informed the mother that she would be willing to take the child if she would be allowed to adopt it. She was told…
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