In Re Eichelberger

The above matter came on before the juvenile court on a petition of one Margaret Harris asking that the court find that Celeste Eichelberger, a person of the age of two years on the eighth day of September, 1924, be declared by the court to be free from custody and control of her parents, as provided in section 15 of an act of the legislature of the state of California, entitled, “An Act to be known as the Juvenile Court Law,” approved June 5, 1915 (Stats. 1915, p. 1225), and acts amendatory thereto. The petition alleged that on the 2-0th of September, 1923, said child was given into the custody and control of the petitioner and her husband by the mother of said child, and alleged that the father of said child was then, and at the time of the signing of the petition still was, absent from the state; and alleged “that the mother of said child and her mother, Myrtle Bowers, had stated to petitioner that she could keep the child as her own and that the father of said child had written to them stating that he consented to the same”; that the child was left in the care of the petitioner and her husband, Ralph Harris, by her parents without any provision for her support and without…