Cochran Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

Kenneth Neff and his wife Barbara had four children: Barbara born in 1938, Augusta born in 1939, Beatrice in 1941, and Kenneth, Jr., in 1942. In 1946 these four children were adjudged “neglected” by the Juvenile Court of Cumberland County, and the Court, sitting as a quarter sessions court, placed them in a foster home. In 1948 the same Court committed the four children to the Methodist Home for Children, * where they have received excellent care.

This is an appeal from a closely divided Superior Court (4-3), which denied the petition of the mother, Barbara Cochran,…