State v. Stemmler

This action arose in the Dubuque County Juvenile Court on the petition of Hillcrest Baby Fold, which is a duly authorized child-placing agency in Dubuque, against Herbert G. and Mary Joyce Kelly, husband and wife, with whom the agency had placed a child on probation on February 18, 1948. The petition asked that such parties relinquish and surrender such child to the agency. The petition was filed in the original juvenile proceeding in which the child became a ward of the juvenile court, and was resisted by the Kellys.

Herbert G. Kelly was a minister in charge of a church at Elkader, Iowa, in…