In Re Bruegger

This is an appeal from a judgment denying and dismissing a petition for the appointment of appellant as general guardian of Agnes Patterson Bruegger, a minor, and the daughter of Clinton Bruegger, the respondent. There were three proceedings pending in the trial court all having to do with the custody of this child, who at the time of trial was about seven years of age. One was a petition on the part of the appellant here to have it declared that her grandchild was abandoned by her father and free from his care and control; another was a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by the father against the maternal grandparents; and the third was the proceeding which gives rise to this appeal. The three proceedings were tried at the same time, it having been stipulated that all of the testimony might be considered as testimony in the guardianship proceeding. By reason of the failure of counsel to agree to all the facts or to direct our attention to those portions of the transcript where we might find the testimony referred to by them in their briefs we have assumed the burden of reading the entire testimony, a burden which counsel ought not to expect us to undertake, and which except for…