Keeler's Adoption
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 51 and 52, Oct. T., 1912, by James T. Sweeney, from decree of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1910, No. 209, vacating decree of adoption in re Adoption of Charlotte E. Keeler. Petition to vacate decree of adoption. Bromall, J., filed the following opinion: On April 23,1910, the petition of James T. Sweeney was presented to this court, praying for a decree adopting Charlotte E. Keeler as his child.
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Appeals, Nos. 51 and 52, Oct. T., 1912, by James T. Sweeney, from decree of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1910, No. 209, vacating decree of adoption in re Adoption of Charlotte E. Keeler. Petition to vacate decree of adoption. Bromall, J., filed the following opinion: On April 23,1910, the petition of James T. Sweeney was presented to this court, praying for a decree adopting Charlotte E. Keeler as his child. The averment of this petition upon which the jurisdiction of the court was invoked, was this: “That the mother of the said child has, for some cause, neglected and refused to provide for…
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Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
On April 23, 1910, James T. Sweeney presented his petition praying for the adoption of Charlotte E. Keeler, an infant. Attached to the petition was a printed blank— without date—but signed by Lillie M. Keeler—the mother of the child—and given to James T. Sweeney, by the sisters of charity who surrendered the child to him. The court ordered and decreed that “James T. Sweeney is to adopt the said Charlotte E. Keeler, and that the said child is to assume the name of the said James T. Sweeney, and have all the rights of a child and heir, and be subject to the duties of a…
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- Cochran v. EldridgeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
- Carroll's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Brown's AdoptionSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
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