Ex Parte Libertini

This is an appeal from the dismissal by Judge John E. Raine, Jr. of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of a petition for adoption of an unmarried, thirty-five year old captain in the Women’s Army Corps, who has given her consent, by an unmarried fifty-six year old sergeant in the W.A.C., who is domi ciled in Maryland. The proposed adoption is allegedly for reasons of inheritance and maternal feeling. After receiving the petition, the court below did not hold a hearing, thus the parties had no opportunity to present their case. The court dismissed the petition for the reasons that “to…