In Re Coston

In 1919 the General Assembly enacted a statute known as the Juvenile Court Act, making provision for the care and control of the delinquent and dependent and neglected children of the State, substantially as it now appears in chapter 90, article 2, of the Consolidated Statutes, secs. 5039-506?, inclusive. The statute, after conferring exclusive jurisdiction of the general subject on the Superior Courts of the State, for the more efficient administration of its provisions has established juvenile courts in every county as separate parts of the Superior Court, constituting the clerks of the…