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Ashton Adoption Case

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 27, 1953No. Appeal, 149PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

Richard W. Kubach and Helen R. Kubach, his wife, filed their joint petition in the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County for a decree of adoption of an infant child identified in the petition as Baby Boy Ashton. At a hearing on the petition, the child’s natural mother, Mildred Elaine Ashton, who was unmarried, appeared personally and by counsel to protest the adoption. During the progress of the hearing, she filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain custody of the child. After the Kubachs had filed an…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. DavenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
  2. Schwab Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
  3. Davies Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
  4. Susko Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
  5. Hazuka's CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Smith Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Gifford v. MillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
  3. In Re Mark T.Michigan Court of Appeals · 1967
  4. Gunther Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  5. Hangartner Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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