In Re Deleon

This is an appeal from an order vacating and setting aside an order and judgment of the superior court of Solano County, made and entered in the matter of the adoption of Benetta DeLeon, an infant.

The facts, as gleaned from the judgment-roll herein, are as follows: On or about the first day of October, 1921, in the superior court of the state of California, in and for the county of Colusa, one George DeLeon was awarded a decree of divorce from Elizabeth DeLeon, then and theretofore his wife, on the grounds of cruelty. In the decree, and as a part thereof, the said George DeLeon was awarded the care, custody, and control of Benetta DeLeon, a minor child of said parties, then an infant of the age of about six years. After the entry of the decree of divorce, as herein mentioned, George DeLeon placed the said Benetta DeLeon with Alma E. Blood and Horace B. Blood, the petitioners for the adoption of said infant and the appellants in this proceeding. On the twenty-eighth day of October, 1921, the said Elizabeth DeLeon intermarried with one John Spurgeon. On the second day of September, 1922, George DeLeon died. Thereafter, and upon the 12th of September, 1922, the said Alma E. Blood…