Adoption, Eugene Gouled

By petition filed April 28, 1944 in the circuit court of the first judicial circuit, Lee Wah, an unmarried man, sought to adopt Eugene Gouled, who was born September 30, 1940 and who was alleged to be an illegitimate child of petitioner and Patsy Clara Yee Henderson, an unmarried woman.

At the hearing on the petition by the circuit judge in chambers an agent of the department of public welfare appeared and contested the right of the petitioner to adopt said child. At the conclusion of the hearing on May 12, 1944 the circuit judge rendered an oral decision setting forth the facts from which he…