In Re Stein

On the seventeenth day of November, 1925, a petition was filed by Mattie M. Stein, one of the juvenile court officers of the county of San Joaquin, in the superior court of the county of San Joaquin, praying that the above-named minors be adjudged wards of the juvenile court of said county. The petition shows that the oldest of said minors was of the age of twelve years and the youngest of said minors of the age of five years. It is further set forth in the petition that the whereabouts of the father of said minors was unknown. That said minors had no parents exercising proper parental care and control, and that said minors were in need of the same. That said minors have been kept and maintained in a bunk-house unfit for such purposes. That the minors were residents within the county of San Joaquin. And that said minors should be dealt with according to the Juvenile Law of the state of California. A citation was thereupon issued, and in due time an answer to said petition was filed by the mother of said minors. The matter came on for hearing on the thirtieth day of November, 1925, and after the taking of the testimony, the further hearing of said matter was continued until the…