State Ex Rel. Ostoj v. McClernan

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an original proceeding. It involves the right to disqualify a district judge for imputed bias in a juvenile proceeding.

On April 2, 1955, the chief probation officer of Silver Bow County, Montana, filed in the district court of such county a petition representing, inter alia: That the boy named and accused in the petition is a delinquent child whose father and mother are unable to care for, protect, train, educate, control or discipline and that it is for the best interests of such child that he be taken from his parents and placed under the care of some…