In Re Edwards

From the files herein it appears that in the month of September, 1926, under the provisions of the Juvenile Court Law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225, as variously amended), a petition was presented to the Superior Court in Imperial County, sitting as a juvenile court, pursuant to which Damon Edwards, a minor, was adjudged free from the custody and control of his parents. More than two years thereafter, while said minor was residing with petitioner herein in Imperial County, a petition was filed in the Superior Court in Fresno County, sitting as a juvenile court, by which it was sought to have it judicially declared that said Damon Edwards was a ward of the juvenile court. Notwithstanding the fact (as shown by the petition therein) that at the time the petition was filed in Fresno County the minor in question was neither a resident of nor within said county, a citation was issued and an order made by such court, under the purported authority of which the minor was taken from Im perial County to Fresno County, and on a hearing of the petition in the juvenile court of the latter county, temporary custody of the minor was awarded, not to the probation officer of said court, but to the then…