In Re Lee

The state’s attorney of Addison County brought separate petitions to the Addison Municipal Court, sitting as a Juvenile Court, under 33 V.S.A. §605, alleging that Donna Marie Lee and Peggy Ann Lee of Orwell, Vermont, were each a dependent child in that “she is not receiving proper and adequate care, shelter, food and clothing.” Thereafter, a social worker of the Department of Social Welfare investigated the case and made report to the court on January 13, 1966, as required by 33 V.S.A. §606. The hearing on each petition was held on May 19, 1966. The court issued its mittimus, or order, the…