Tompkins v. Lutheran Welfare Society

This appeal involves the right to custody of the infant child of the appellant mother. The circuit court refused to disturb the custody of respondent Lutheran *288Welfare Society to which the child had been surrendered in a dependency proceeding under SDC 43.03. We affirm the judgment entered by the circuit court.

The baby was born March 7, 1950. Appellant then 20 years old was cared for in the home maintained by the respondent Society both before and after the birth, and on March 17, 1950 the baby was adjudged a dependent child on appellant’s petition after a hearing in a Minnehaha county court…