Estate of Akers

This is an appeal by Grace Akers, the mother of William David Akers, a minor of the age of seven years, from an order of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco appointing Mrs. Chrissie Shreve guardian of the person and estate of said minor. The guardianship proceeding was heard and determined upon the issues raised by the respective petitions for the guardianship of the said minor, and the answers thereto, of Grace Akers, the mother of the minor, and Mrs. Shreve. The issues thus presented involve the questions of the abandonment of the child by the mother and the latter’s fitness and competency to have the care, custody, and control of the child. In its findings of fact, the court below found, among other things, that Grace Akers, the mother of the child, in the month of November, 1915, abandoned the child and then, and ever since then, surrendered all her parental rights to said child, and, furthermore, that she was not a fit or proper person to have the care, custody, or control of the child, nor a competent person to be the guardian of the person or estate of the child. A reversal of the order is urged upon the ground that these findings are not supported by…