In Re Owen

This is a proceeding to take away from the father two children, a girl two years old and a boy one year old, and to place them in some institution or with some private family where they may receive proper care, attention, and education.

The proceeding was initiated by an affidavit made jointly by W. E. Kelley and Mrs. O. L. Dawson, and on this affidavit the judge issued an order to the father to show cause why the two children should not be taken from his possession, custody, and control permanently and placed in the care, custody, and control of some institution or private family.

The…