State Ex Rel. Palagi v. Freeman

On March 22, 1927, the relator, Guy Palagi, chief probation officer of Cascade county, presented to the district court of that county a petition charging that Patrick Freeman, a minor of the age of fourteen years, was a juvenile delinquent, and that Gertrude Freeman, his widowed mother, was unwilling and unable to care for, protect, train, educate, control and discipline him. The petition further recites that young Freeman “is incorrigible, in that he violates the laws of the state,” and then charges that on March 16, 1927, Freeman took from the street and drove an automobile without the…