State Ex Rel. Haugland v. Smythe

The question presented herein for decision is this: Has a judge of the superior court, while conducting a juvenile case, the right by subpoena duces tecum to compel an administrator of the county welfare department to produce in court the original confidential file of such department concerning a delinquent minor child, for inspection and use of such file by the juvenile court in the matter then pending and affecting the delinquent minor?

Owing to the partly informal manner in which the question in issue was presented to and determined by the juvenile court, the record in this case is not as…