In Re Crutcher

This is an appeal from an order of the juvenile department of the superior court of Los Angeles County denying the petition of appellant for an order declaring Lewis Pinkerton Crutcher, Jr., a ward of the juvenile court. Petitioner is the uncle of the minor and the respondents, James D. and Kate L. Campbell, are the párente of the child by adoption under a decree of the superior court entered on the twenty-six day of June, 1914, upon which date the natural father and mother were both deceased. The mother died when Lewis Pinkerton Crutcher, Jr., was an infant, and the father’s death occurred on the third day of June, 1914, up to which date the child had been cared for by the respondents. In enumerating those who are subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, subdivision 2 of section 1 of the juvenile court law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225) includes “those who have no parent or guardian; or who have no parent or guardian willing to exercise or capable of exercising proper parental control; or who have no parent or guardian actually exercising such proper parental control and who is in need of such control. ’ ’ Therefore, this infant is one who may be regarded as a proper subject…