Buckley v. Hammond

This is a probate appeal pending in this court on the appellant’s exceptions taken in the Superior Court.

' By a decree entered December 18, 1906, the Municipal Court of the City of Providence granted the petition of Ralph Hammond and wife for the adoption of Mary Buckley, a minor. The adoption was asked for on the ground that the parents of Mary Buckley had “willfully deserted and neglected to provide proper care and maintenance for said child for more than one-year next preceding the time of filing” the petition. Within forty days after the entry of the decree the child, Mary Buckley, by her…