In Re Minada

This is a contest over the guardianship of the person of Dorothy Minada, known as Dorothy Abbott, a minor, born January 5, 1921, at Lodi, California. The petitioner Alda Minada, now Costa, is the mother of the child. Cross-petitioners Jay S. Abbott and Gladys W. Abbott, his wife, now have and have continuously had the care and custody of the child ever since she was a few days old. The Minada-Costa petition was denied on the ground of the abandonment and nonsupport of the child by petitioner, and the petition of cross-petitioners was granted. This appeal is by the petitioner. The determination of this appeal rests on the sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings of abandonment and nonsupport made by the trial court, viz.: Findings 2, 3 and 4, which findings are as follows: "2. On January 15th, 1921, said petitioner, with the intent thereby to entirely sever the parental relation existing between herself and said child, and with the intent to throw off all obligations growing out of said parental relation, gave said child to cross-petitioners at said Lodi. Cross-petitioners then and there accepted said child from petitioner, took said child into their home, and since the…