In Re Adoption of McLean

This is' an appeal on a question of law from a judgment entered in an adoption proceeding in the Probate Court in favor of the petitioners, who would adopt a minor child, Richard Ernest McLean, the illegitimate child of Mary McLean, an unmarried person. Evelyn B. Krabill is a sister of Mary McLean, and the child’s aunt. Since eleven days after birth, and until the child was taken into custody by an officer of the juvenile department of the Court of Domestic Relations, a period of twenty-two months, the petitioners had the care and possession of the child. The reputed father and a relief…