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IN RE ADOPTION OF ZAVASKY

No. 36,197.

241 Minn. 447 (1954)

IN RE ADOPTION OF MARIA AND PATRICIA ZAVASKY. GEORGE SHERMAN AND ANOTHER v. BUREAU OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND ANOTHER.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 19, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orville L. Freeman, Louise A. Herou, and Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist, Freeman & Fraser, for appellants.

J.A.A. Burnquist, Attorney General, and Harold S. Bjornstad, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent Director of Social Welfare.

Fred A. Kueppers, for respondent Bureau of Catholic Charities.

MATSON, JUSTICE.

Appeal from judgments of the district court of Hennepin county denying petitions for the adoption of two minors on the sole ground that the accredited agency or association to whose care and guardianship the minors had previously been committed as dependent and neglected children (M.S.A. 260.11) refused to consent to such adoptions.

We are concerned with these issues:

(1) Whether the term guardian as defined in § 259.21...

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