Lacher v. Venus

The following opinion was filed May 9, 1922:

Eschweiler, J.

The question presented for decision may be stated thus: Can a county court acquire jurisdiction so as to' make a valid order of adoption as to an infant under fourteen years of age, then in the custody of the state board of control, where no written consent thereto has been given by the living natural parents of such child or due notice of such hearing served upon them? — the commitment of such child to the state school at Sparta having been made by a juvenile court on findings that the child was dependent and the parents unable then…