Mock v. Evans Light & Ice Co.

This is an action by Plaintiff, the adoptive mother of a minor child, to recover for its death caused, so it is alleged, by the negligence of defendants.

By the declaration it is alleged that there ivas an adoption of the child by the plaintiff, who is a married woman, her husband not joining in the adoption proceeding but consenting thereto; that at its birth the child and its mother, who was a sister of plaintiff, were abandoned and deserted by the father; that at the time of its adoption by Plaintiff the mother ivas dead but the father is living; that he did not oppose the adoption by…