HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in equity, denying a petition for the adoption of an infant and awarding custody of the child to its natural mother.
Helen Knight, a resident of Greene County, Virginia, gave birth to an illegitimate child on March 12, 1949. She was then eighteen years of age, and the father of the child had married another girl. She was one of a family...
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