Certwell v. Hoyt

Smith, J.,

concurs upon the ground that the gift by the mother, just before her decease — the father having previously died — of the seduced, when an infant, to her grandfather, and his acceptance of the gift and assumption of the duty and charge of a parent toward said infant, and bringing her up in his family as if she was his own child, was an adoption of said infant as his own child, and vested in him all the rights of a parent to said infant.