Legal Opinion
Petition of Loudin
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 3, 1966No. Ex. No. 10811, Eq. No. 3266PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This cause arises out of three separate and conflicting claims for the permanent custody of a ten-year-old orphan. It is before us on two separate appeals from the decree of a family court justice awarding such custody to a maternal aunt and her husband and denying the petitions of another maternal aunt and her husband, together with that of a paternal uncle and his wife.
The record establishes that Bruce Philip Loudin, Jr., and his wife Dorothy were residing with their three minor children in Tiverton, Rhode Island, when on October 22, 1963 said Bruce P. Loudin, Jr., died from injuries…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Petition of SmithSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1966
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Engelhardt v. BergeronSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1974
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