In Re Adoption of Kure

Loring, Justice.

Petitioners appeal from a judgment of the district court of St. Louis county which denied their petition to adopt Frank Joseph Kure, a minor child.

The child was born at St. Paul in April, 1931, and shortly after its mother was committed to the state hospital for the feeble-minded and has ever since been there confined. The father, being unable to care for the child, petitioned the juvenile court of St. Louis county to commit it to the care of the state. The juvenile' court found the child to be dependent and committed it to the care of the Minnesota board of control. Shortly…