Helen Frances Young's Adoption
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 103, Oct. T., 1917, by George W. Thompson, Committee of Nelson Young and Frances Thompson Young, from decree of C, P, Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No: 2316, refusing to set aside decree of adoption in case of In re Adoption of Helen Frances Young. Petition to set aside decree of adoption. Before Shaper, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court refused to set aside the decree.
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Appeal, No. 103, Oct. T., 1917, by George W. Thompson, Committee of Nelson Young and Frances Thompson Young, from decree of C, P, Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No: 2316, refusing to set aside decree of adoption in case of In re Adoption of Helen Frances Young. Petition to set aside decree of adoption. Before Shaper, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court refused to set aside the decree. George W. Thompson, Committee of Nelson Young and Frances Thompson Young appealed. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This is a proceeding to set aside a decree of adoption. On June 21, 1915, James B. Laughlin and Clara Y. Laughlin, his wife, residents of Pittsburgh, presented their petition in the usual form to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, setting forth, inter alia, their desire of adopting as their child one Helen Frances Young, the minor child of Nelson E. and Frances Thompson Young; that the mother had consented to the adoption and that the father had neglected and refused to provide for the child for a period of more than one year next preceding the…
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