KUSNER ADOPTION CASE, 407 Pa. 592 (1962)

181 A.2d 684

Kusner Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.May 1, 1962.
May 21, 1962.

Appeals — Review — Decree in adoption case.

On an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for adoption in which the Supreme Court finds no abuse of discretion or error of law the decree will be affirmed.

Before BELL, C. J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O’BRIEN, JJ.

Appeal, No. 65, Jan. T., 1962, from order of Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County, No. 46 of 1961, in re adoption of Robert Barnard Kusner, a minor. Order affirmed; reargument refused June 21, 1962.

Adoption proceedings.

Order entered dismissing petition, opinion by TAXIS, JR., P. J. Petitioners appealed.

David B. Kusner, in propria persona, for appellants.

No argument was made nor brief submitted for appellee.

Dr. Harry G. Gianakon, executive director of Child Study Center of Philadelphia, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

OPINION PER CURIAM, May 21, 1962:

Louis and Esther Kusner, the grandparents, and David B. Kusner, the father of Robert B. Kusner, aged

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25 months, appeal from an Order of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County which dismissed a petition for the adoption of Robert B. Kusner by the grandparents of the 25-month old boy.[*] We have considered the record and find no abuse of discretion or error of law.

Order affirmed; costs to be paid by appellant, David B. Kusner.

[*] Cf. Kusner v. Kusner, 196 Pa. Super. 513, 175 A.2d 889.
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