State ex rel. Messmer v. Superior Court

This case comes to the supreme court on cer-tiorari to review an order of the juvenile court for King county. The order permanently deprives a father of all parental rights and interests in and to his minor child, continues the status of the child as a ward of the court, and commits him into the permanent custody of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Seattle.

There is no provision for appeal in the juvenile court law. The orders and judgments of the juvenile court, whether relating to delinquent or dependent children, are subject to review by certiorari. State ex rel. Gray v. Webster…