ADOPTION OF A CHILD
A CASE IN-THESUPREME COURT /Per Press Assooation* •■""...-. ■ ; ' : ,pXJ§EDIN,,Aug2 3 ,. r A case in which ;a, motion: tb make the .rule nioi ' for a writ, .of HaTseas Corpus ; - in respect; of ., a iboy about six years old, occupied the Supreme -Court all day. .to-day. Those moving in the case were tEe mother of the child and her husßand, who desired to .get .ppssessip^of. the boy from the respondents, who had adopted or agreed to. adopt ; ; the child,; though they 'had not apparently obtiained an order. 5 0f. ; adqptdpn : dn, legal ;formi and' thpngh repeated efforts .had been! made to get it. : , ■;: ..... '■'. ■■.]:■:■;/:'■. :\ ;•.-._ ."■■■.•> The evidence showed,^ that the res--ponde.nt had. had 4 the .custody, .of ;r .tfee cMld for nearly, six- years^and had taken every- care of it,, that i'its." (mother had been in a. very .-.weak : stateof ihealth which was in a.large,measuire^her^rea- , son 1 for., parting .with -the chifd. ;&ecr entiy:she had recovered. her health and had discovered that; the order, for-'adopt ion was. npt,4n TegaU form and sfie had Aereipre ,tiie prospect ..;of ;. regaining possession) of ;!^e; child. •The^deedsion .was reserves. ;;
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Grey River Argus, 24 August 1912, Page 5
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184ADOPTION OF A CHILD Grey River Argus, 24 August 1912, Page 5
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