In re Post

On January 5, 1951, the police chief of the village of Stillwater presented a petition to Children’s Court of Saratoga County alleging, in substance, that Edna Post, a child fourteen years of age, was delinquent. Later on the same day the child and her parents appeared before the Children’s Court. No summons was issued requiring their attendance before that court as provided in section 11 of the Children’s Court Act. The proof before the Special Term disclosed that the police chief asked the parents if it would be all right if he took the child before the judge so that the latter might “ give…