Commonwealth v. Ball

This is a petition brought by the parents of Helen Ball asking that an order of the Superior Court, made in 1918, placing her in the care of William J. Driscoll until the further order of court, be modified by the entry of an order for her return to the petitioners. The original *151order was made in accordance with the provisions of St. 1903, c. 334, as amended by St. 1909, c. 181, after a decision that Helen Ball was a neglected child. A judge of the Superior Court denied the petition, and the petitioners saved exceptions to his refusal to make certain rulings. For the purposes of this case it…