Turkel v. Ramsey County Welfare Board

Rogosheske, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order terminating the parental rights of a mother of an illegitimate child bom May 7, 1955. The ultimate *49question presented is whether the evidence sustains the court’s findings upon which the order was issued.

It appears that the procedure in some vital respects followed the governing statutes as they existed prior to their amendment in 1959 by the Juvenile Court Act.1 Since this act was in effect when the petition was filed and was intended to modify the procedure to be followed,2 it is necessary that we view the critical findings in the light of…