Legal Opinion
Middleworth v. Ordway
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1905PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Action for specific performance of a contract of adoption.
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
This action is brought by the plaintiff against the widow and next of kin of James M. Ordway, deceased, to compel specific performance of a contract of adoption, dated Hovember 25, 1879, made by George B. Stanton, her father, with James M. Ordway, the defendant’s intestate.
There are few contracts that appeal more strongly to a court of equity than those which provide for the adoption of children. The one at bar is no exception. It was made in behalf of the plaintiff, by her father, when she was about fifteen months old. He was a laboring man, in straightened circumstances, who had been left,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hamlin v. . StevensNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Parsell v. . StrykerNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Mahaney v. . CarrNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Gates v. GatesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
3Cited by8 opinions
- Bedal v. JohnsonIdaho Supreme Court · 1923
- Ezell v. MobleySupreme Court of Georgia · 1925
- In Re Estate of FirleSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1936
- In re the Application for Letters of Administration upon the Estate of KirbyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1932
- Kempe v. HackSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1923
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