State v. Lange

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court putting a stop to proceedings instituted by the county director of public welfare before a justice of the peace in Hiawatha to remove Lucian 0. Lange and his wife and their two children to the state of Washington on the ground that they were likely to become a public charge in Brown county.

The statute relied on to justify the proceedings before the justice of the peace is G. S. 1935, 39-313, which reads:

“Upon complaint of any overseer of the poor, any justice of the peace may issue…