STATE EX REL. ADOPTION OF FIRECROW v. DISTRICT CT.

No. 13025.

536 P.2d 190 (1975)

STATE of Montana ex rel. in the Matter of the ADOPTION OF Ivan FIRECROW, a minor by Leroy Runsabove and Josephine Runsabove, Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT OF the SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT of the State of Montana, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ROSEBUD, and the Honorable Alfred B. Coate, Judge Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided June 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis E. Brueggemann (argued), Billings, for petitioners.

Clarence T Belue (argued), Hardin, for respondents.


CASTLES, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of supervisory control or other appropriate writ seeking relief from an order of the district court of the sixteenth judicial district, Rosebud County, which held the district court had no jurisdiction in this adoption proceeding and ordered the case dismissed.

On August 20, 1974, petitioners Leroy and Josephine Runsabove filed in the district court a petition for the adoption of Ivan Firecrow, a minor child...

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