In re Reichle

To the Hon. J. V. Coffey, Judge of the Superior Court of said City and County, Department No. 9 of said Court:

The petition of James T. Hume and Louise Hume, his wife, respectfully shows:

That they are husband and wife, and are residing together, in said city and county.

That both of your petitioners are over the age of thirty (30) years and have no children or child of their own.

*220 That they are desirous of adopting a child, named Mary Reichle, now aged seven years and about two months, and the daughter of Charles Reichle and Mary Reichle and born to them in lawful wedlock.

That said child is now and for more than one year last past has been an -inmate of and in the care of the asylum in said city and county, called “Little Sisters Infant Shelter,” a duly organized and incorporated asylum or place of shelter for helpless children of tender years, under the law of California.

That Charles Reichle, the father of said child, Mary Reichle, was, on the 18th of June, 1887, adjudged and declared to be insane by this honorable court, and sent to the State Insane Asylum at Stockton, this state; that he remained there until the 25th of November, 1888, when he was transferred to…