Nelson v. Ecklund

The plaintiff seeks to review the proceedings wherein his minor daughter was adopted by the defendant. The daughter was born in March 1930. The mother of the child died in April 1934 and thereafter, with the consent of the father, the child has been in the custody of the defendant.

The record shows that in January 1933 the plaintiff was adjudged insane by the commissioners of insanity and committed to the State Hospital, discharged in May, recommitted in December, paroled in April of 1935, and finally discharged in March 1936. It is conceded that no guardian of the plaintiff had ever been…