Venables v. Ayres

How courts have described this case

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• setting aside adoption judgment on ground that adoption proceeding abated on adoptive parent’s death because the purpose of adoption “becomes incapable of fulfillment once the would-be parent has died”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).