Ex parte Clark

Petitioner is the mother of Charles Henry Clark, a minor, and the respondents, who are husband and wife, claim that he has become their child by adoption. This claim is based upon an order made November 16, 1888, by Hon. John F. Finn, one of the judges of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco. Attached to the order is a written consent signed by James P. Clark and Annie E. Clark, the parents of the child, consenting that "said Charles Henry Clark may be adopted by Jacob Reulein. Following this is a written agreement and consent signed by David Reulein and Mrs. Katie Reulein, in which the latter consents that David Reulein might adopt the child, and in which David Reulein agrees to adopt •the child and treat him thereafter in all respects as his own lawful child. The order of the judge recites that the parents, James P. and Annie E. Clark, and Jacob Reulein and Katie Reulein, his wife, appeared before him, bringing with them said Charles Henry Clark, aged two years and eleven months; that he examined each of said persons separately, and from such examination found that Jacob Reulein was desirous of adopting said Charles; that his wife, Katie, consented to such…