State Ex Rel. Michelson v. Superior Court

Relator seeks a writ prohibiting the judge of the juvenile court for King county from signing and entering an order placing a child, now two and one-half years of age, with the Catholic Charities of Seattle for adoption, which order the judge has indicated will be made and entered unless he is prohibited from so doing.

The relator is the child’s maternal grandmother, said by the juvenile court judge to be “a woman of unquestioned integrity and high moral character” and to have a “deep love for the child.” She cannot have physical custody of the child because of a tuberculous condition for…