Robinson

These are appeals from orders of the juvenile court in two companion cases adjudicating minor dependent children and ordering that their custody be placed under the supervision of the Department of Social Services. We affirm the orders of the juvenile court.

We are confronted with a threshold question in our consideration of the case at bench. Relying upon Matter of Cannon, 27 Cal.App. 549 [ 150 P. 794 ], and dictum in In re De Vore, 64 Cal.App. 347 [ 221 P. 706 ], appellant contends that an appeal under the Juvenile Court Law is in effect a limited trial de novo upon the record in which the Court of Appeal is entitled to make its own findings of fact irrespective of findings of the juvenile court which are supported by substantial evidence. The contention is unfounded. Cannon was decided under the Juvenile Court Law of 1913 which did provide that standard of review. (Stats. 1913, ch. 673, p. 1304.) Beginning in 1915, however, the Juvenile Court Law was amended to adopt the substantial evidence test of appellate review. (In re Bacon, 240 Cal.App.2d 34, 46 [ 49 Cal.Rptr. 322 ], hg. den.; In re Corey, 230 Cal.App.2d 813, 823 [ 41 Cal.Rptr. 379 ].)

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We thus view the…