In Re Hunter

These minors, of the age of seventeen years, were found to be delinquent and neglected children and were committed to the Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial ' School, at Lytton Springs, conducted by the Salvation Army. The court found that their parents were incapable of exercising over these children proper parental control; that their home, by reason of neglect, on the part of the parents, was an unfit place for them; that for a long period of time they were not properly disciplined or controlled; that they were in great danger of being led astray into bad and immoral practices; that their education has been neglected, due to the indifference or carelessness of the parents; that they are in great need of proper parental training, care and control, and that it is for the best interests of these minors that they be declared wards of the juvenile court, and that their care, custody, training, and education be committed to other hands than their parents.

The legal foundation for the action of the court is found in subdivisions 2 and 11 of section 1 and section 9b of the juvenile court law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225.) It is therein provided that among the persons to whom the law applies is one…