Farley

This is an appeal from an order of the Juvenile Department of the Superior Court of San Diego County adjudging Michael Allen Parley, a minor, a ward of the juvenile court of said county under section 700, subdivision (b), of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and giving said minor’s custody to the probation officer of said county. It was further ordered that the child be placed with his father in Naehes, Washington, and “that said ward shall be subject to the supervision of the probation officer and the further orders of this court.” Larissa Laurel Parley, the mother of said minor, appeals from this order, and the principal question here involved is whether the evidence is sufficient to support it.

The report of the probation officer and the testimony adduced at the hearing in this matter shows the following: The probation officer of San Diego County and the Department of Public Welfare have had frequent dealings with appellant and her child. The matter of the child’s custody was first brought to the attention of the probation department *476 in 1953, when the superior court ordered the probation officer to conduct an investigation and to report on the fitness of the parents to…