State Ex Rel. Williams v. Juvenile Court

Certiorari to review an order dismissing a petition to have ad- - judged dependent a nine year old girl. The matter is controlled by sections 1 and 11, chapter 397, L. 1917 (G. S. 1923, §§ 8636, 8637), construed in State ex rel. Mattes v. Juvenile Court, 147 Minn. 222, 179 N. W. 1006. The girl’s mother died a year or so after her birth; her father remarried and this controversy is between- a sister of the child’s mother on the one hand and her stepmother on the other, under circumstances which, it should be said in justice to both, reflect no discredit on either. The father is serving an…