Case Name: STATE ex rel. BIRCH v. BAKER et ux.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1919-06-02
Citations: 147 La. 319
Docket Number: No. 22651
Parties: STATE ex rel. BIRCH v. BAKER et ux.
Judges: O’NIELL, J., dissents.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 319–323

Head Matter:
(84 South. 796)
No. 22651.
STATE ex rel. BIRCH v. BAKER et ux.
(June 2, 1919.
On the Merits, May 3, 1920.
Rehearing Denied May 31, 1920.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
1. Habeas corpus &wkey;>l 13(4) — Appellant held not to have acquiesced in judgment. ,
An appeal from a judgment in habeas corpus, giving relator custody of a child subject to proceedings in. the juvenile court to determine its custody, will not be dismissed for acquiescence of appellant therein, where the only acquiescence was by pleading to the jurisdiction of the district court because the case was within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
On the Merits.
2. Divorce i&wkey;289 — Separation from bed and board; juvenile court jurisdiction does not affect jurisdiction in divorce to award child’s custody.
Const, art. 118, giving exclusive jurisdiction to the juvenile court to try all neglected and delinquent children, does not affect the right of the district court in an action for divorce or separation to award the custody of a minor child to one of the parties.
3. Adoption c&wkey;7— Divorced father must consent to adoption of child awarded to mother.
An adoption of a child with the mother’s consent, but without the consent of the father, is void under the statute requiring consent of both parents if living, though the custody of the , child had been awarded to the mother in divorce proceedings.
4.Habeas corpus &wkey;>93 — Adopting parents cannot contend as against father that custody was awarded to divorced mother.
In habeas corpus proceedings by a father for custody of his minor child foster parents who adopted the child with the consent of the mother, who was not a party to the proceedings, cannot raise the issues that the mother obtained her divorce against relator on the ground of adultery, and was awarded custody of the child.
O’Niell, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Washington; Prentiss 13. Carter, Judge.
Habeas corpus by the State, on relation of James R. Birch, against George W. Baker and wife, to recover custody of relator’s minor child. From a judgment making the writ absolute, giving permanent custody of the child to relator subject to the action of the juvenile court as to the legal custody of the child, respondents appeal.
Motion to dismiss appeal overruled, and judgment affirmed.
Sanders & Johnson and C. E. Ott, all of Bogalusa, for appellants.
M. I. Varnado, of Franklinton, for appellee.

Opinion:
SOMMERVILLE, J.
On motion to dismiss appeal. Relator and appellee moves to dismiss the appeal taken by respondent on the ground that, after the judgment appealed from had been rendered, respondent had acquiesced in the judgment by filing a certain motion in the district court.
Appellee is in error. The motion was a plea to the jurisdiction of the district court, in which it was alleged that the case was within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, and it was filed before the case was tried dr judgment was rendered.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.