In re Dale

Petition for Adoption.

To the Honorable James Y. Coffey, as Judge of the above-entitled Superior Court.

The petition of Wm. J. Dale and Eliza Jane Dale, his wife, for the adoption of the above-named minor, respectfully shows: That your petitioners are husband and wife, having intermarried on the thirteenth day of August, 1894, at the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That your petitioner, William J. Dale, is aged thirty years and upward, and has resided in the above-named city and county of San Francisco, continuously and uninterruptedly for nine years last past, and your petitioner, Eliza Jane Dale, is aged thirty years and upward, and is a resident of and has resided for nine years last past in the aforesaid city and county of San Francisco. That the above-named minor is a female child of the age of two years and upward, being born on or about January 25, 1892, and your petitioner and each of your petitioners is more than ten years older than the said minor; that said minor is a resident of the aforesaid city and county of San Francisco, and has been since January 25, 1892. That Jane Dale, the mother of said child died in the city and county of San Francisco, on January 28,…