Brown's Adoption
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 213, Oct. T., 1903, by Margaret Isabella Brown, from decree of C. P. Lehigh Co., June T., 1903, No. 40, dismissing petition to revoke adoption in the matter of Margaret Isabella Brown. Petition to revoke adoption.
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Appeal, No. 213, Oct. T., 1903, by Margaret Isabella Brown, from decree of C. P. Lehigh Co., June T., 1903, No. 40, dismissing petition to revoke adoption in the matter of Margaret Isabella Brown. Petition to revoke adoption. The entire record of the adoption proceedings was as follows : “The petition of John Brown, of Brooklyn, New York, respectfully represents: That he is desirous of adopting Margaret Isabella Abbott, a child of John A. Abbott and Margaret Janet Abbott, now deceased, as one of his heirs and for that purpose he hereby declares his said desire, and also that he will perform…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The decree in the adoption of Margaret Isabella Abbott by her uncle John Brown was made in November, 1881. Eleven months afterwards John Brown married. Twenty-one years after the decree, and a year and a half after the death of John Brown, his widow, in the capacity of guardian of their minor child born nineteen years after the decree, petitioned the court to revoke the decree which he had procured to be made, and which neither he nor the adopted child nor any one else attempted to have reversed or set aside in his lifetime. In her petition the guardian alleged that John…
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- Ballard v. WardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879
- Vandermis v. GilbertSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
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