Lambert v. Place

Riner, Justice.

This case brings here for review by proceedings in error the propriety of an order of the district court of Johnson County awarding the custody of two minor children, aged about seven and three years respectively at the time the cause was heard, to the State Board of Charities and Reform of this State. The course of events in the court named antecedent to the final disposition of the matter aforesaid is as follows:

On August 14, 1935, Mrs. Emma Place, now the defendant in error, filed in said district court her verified petition setting forth in substance that Emma Jacqueline…