State v. Toole

REGAN, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, through the Department of Public Welfare, instituted a proceeding in the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Orleans on April 30, 1964, for the purpose of declaring the minor, Joseph Michael Toole, an abandoned child. Mrs. Thelma Morehaus, a half-sister of the child’s mother, intervened in that proceeding, endeavoring to have the child placed in her home in the event he should be considered as abandoned. On August 13, 1964, a judgment was rendered pronouncing the child abandoned, and the request of Mrs. Morehaus for custody was denied.

On August 25, 1964, Mrs.…