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HILDENBRAND APPEAL

405 Pa. 579 (1962)

Hildenbrand Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 2, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Meinzer, with him Duryea, Larzelere & Meinzer, for appellant.

Robert M. Landis, with him J. Stokes Adams, III, and Adams & Childs, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, for Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, appellee.

William B. Ball, Milton P. King, and Sterling, Magaziner, Stern & Levy, and David B. Fitzgerald, Assistant Attorney General, and David Stahl, Attorney General, for Department of Public Welfare, and other nonprofit child caring agencies, as amici curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, January 2, 1962:

Helen M. Hildenbrand, an unwed mother, gave birth prematurely to a baby boy on September 9, 1959. She could not bring the baby to her mother's home and had neither a place of her own nor the financial resources to care for him. She got in touch with the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania and made arrangements to formally surrender the child. All of the facts and factors regarding relinquishment of the child were...

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