Sherman v. Sherman

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). There is a division of authorities on the question of whether a parol agreement of adoption whereby a parent surrenders a child to others upon their promise to adopt, rear, and educate it as their own, and to give it the same right of inheritance a.s a natural child, but which is not consummated by a statutory adoption, will, if otherwise 'fully performed, be enforced after the death of the adoptive parents. The views which we shall hereinafter express render it unnecessary to decide this question.

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