State Ex Rel. Thompson v. District Court

On September 2, 1924, W. A. Bruekert and Ella Bruckert filed in the district court of Carbon county their joint application for the adoption of James Reed Thompson, a minor. The application recites that W. A. and Ella Bruckert are husband and wife, residents of Carbon county, each over the age of twenty-one years; that James Reed Thompson is of the age of six years and five months, of the same race as the petitioners, and for more than a year has been in the custody of the petitioners with the approval of his father, who consents to the adoption; that Maggie Thompson, the mother of the child,…