Legal Opinion
Danforth v. State Department of Health and Welfare
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided April 17, 1973PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POMEROY, Justice.
This appeal from a judgment entered by a Justice of this Court acting in the Superior Court in a habeas corpus proceeding raises an important question of first impression in this State.
The appellants are the natural parents of a minor child.
*795Proceeding agreeably to the provisions of 22 M.R.S.A. § 3792, the Department of Health and Welfare caused a petition seeking an order of the appropriate court that the custody of the minor child be taken from the parents and" be given to the Department of Health and Welfare of the State of Maine.
This petition was initiated in the District…
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