In Re Edwards

This is an appeal taken by Alice M. Akers, mother of Damon Edwards, from an order of the Juvenile Court of Imperial County decreeing that said minor be and remain a ward of the Juvenile Court of Imperial County and' that said child is an abandoned child, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 1, section 15 of the Juvenile Court Law of the state of California and further adjudging and decreeing that said minor child be declared free from the custody and control of his parents Mrs. Leon J. Akers and Damon Barrett Edwards, and that said parents be and they are by said decree deprived of the custody and control of said minor.

It appears from the record that the appellant and Damon Barrett Edwards, father of said minor child, separated in 1922, and that appellant secured an interlocutory decree of divorce from Edwards on the twenty-eighth day of August, 1923, in the Superior Court of Alameda County, and that on the fourth day of September, 1924, a final decree of divorce was entered in said action. Both of said decrees are silent as to the custody of the children of said marriage. At the time of the separation there were four children living, the issue of said marriage, two girls…