State Ex Rel. Buerk v. Calhoun

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. Relator filed in tbe juvenile division of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis his petition, in proper form, for permission to adopt as his child one Lynna Rowland, a married woman of the age of thirty-one years and a resident of said city. The said Lynna Rowland and Alfred B. Rowland, her husband, entered their appearance to the proceeding by filing therein tlieir written consent to the adoption sought. When the cause came on for hearing, respondent, as judge of said court, dismissed the same on the ground that the court was without…