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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF GALVESTON, INC. v. HARPER

No. A-7775.

337 S.W.2d 111 (1960)

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF GALVESTON, INC., Petitioner, v. Judith Ann HARPER et vir, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 6, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holman, Saccomanno & Clegg, James Rowland Gough, Houston, Pollan & Nicholson, Rosenberg, for petitioner.

Copeland, Kalvort & Benn, Houston, for respondents.

CULVER, Justice.

The precise question raised here has not been previously decided in this State. It is whether or not parents having surrendered their child to a child-placing agency licensed by the State Department of Public Welfare and having consented in writing for that agency to place the child for adoption, may, as a matter of right or law revoke that consent.

The respondent, Judith Ann Harper, was on July 17, 1958, a widow and the mother

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