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CRUMP v. MONTGOMERY

[No. 175, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 470 (1961)

168 A.2d 355

CRUMP ET UX. v. MONTGOMERY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed March 22, 1961.

Denied April 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamilton P. Fox, with whom were Hearne, Fox & Bailey on the brief, for appellants.

Herman E. Perdue, for Arthur P. Montgomery and wife and the Wicomico County Welfare Board, three of the appellees.

Alfred H. Carter, County Attorney, with whom was Douglas H. Moore, Jr., Assistant County Attorney on the brief, for Montgomery County Welfare Board, the other appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

An infant boy, Johnnie, who, for the first eighteen months of his life had been cared for by foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Crump of Montgomery County, was suddenly taken from their home by the Welfare Board of that county and, unknown to them, sent to Wicomico County to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Montgomery of Salisbury, who planned to adopt the boy.

The Crumps had been most anxious to adopt Johnnie...

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