Thompson v. Dep't of Soc. Welfare

BROWN (Gerald), P. J.

Charles H. Thompson and Elizabeth S. Thompson appeal from a judgment denying their peti*736tion to independently adopt the infant boy Driscoll and ordering the Orange County W elf are Department, as agent of the State Department of Social Welfare, to take custody of the child for further placement.

In December 1966 when he was a little over a month old, the boy, named Robert by the Thompsons, was released to them from the hospital of his birth. Robert has been with the Thompsons ever since, the trial court having stayed execution of its judgment pending appeal.

The Thompsons’…