Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1951

In re Weiss

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 31, 1951

200 Misc. 241; 106 N.Y.S.2d 794; 1951 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 2223

Counsel

Louis Spivack for appellant., Abraham Rosenfeld for respondent.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

In the case of an infant under sixteen years of age the consent of both parents, if living, to the change of name is required by section 60 of the Civil Rights Law.

The order should be reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion denied.

Eder and Schbeiber, JJ., concur; Hofstadter, J., concurs in result.

Order reversed, etc.

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