Legal Opinion
Curran
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 26, 1943PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, C.J.
This is a petition brought in the Probate Court by Elizabeth Harriet Curran, of Somerville, an adult unmarried woman, for leave to adopt a child under the age of fourteen years, referred to in the petition as Charles Henry Drake, and for a change of the name of the child to Charles Henry Curran. The petition bears the indorsement of consent to the adoption by the mother of the child, the petitioner.
The judge of probate made a “reservation and report” in the following terms: “This is a petition for the adoption and change of name of Charles Henry Drake which petition is brought by an adult…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. PasconeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Dunlop v. ClaussenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Agoos v. Cosmopolitan Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
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3Cited by31 opinions
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