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Show FATHER 13 AWARDED Must Relinquish His Claim, However, ,to Uncle and Aunt of Lad. Joseph I-Ja rry Parmer, now 1 2 yea r-s old. is a warned to the custody of his father, (leorse F. Farmer, now a resident resi-dent of Idaho, by a decision nf Die Supreme Su-preme court banded down yesterday, hut only on condition tii.it ;i order i f adoption adop-tion of the boy by his uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Taylor, lie filed within thirty day?. If no sneh order is filed, j then the district court is ordered lo sei I aside its fornii-r order, awarding ihe cus-tudy cus-tudy of the cliild to the father, and to dismiss the. action brought by ir.e father for custody of tlie hoy. In this event the boy would remain with his step-fa step-fa ther. John W. Christ onsen, and his grandmother, Mrs. G. A. A linguist. "The hoy told the jus I ice 3 ot" the supreme su-preme court," -the decision reads, "that he desired to remain with his stepfather and his prand mother. The at tarhment between him and his grandmother is particularly strong. "Hut Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, (hn latter a .sister of the boy's mother, desired to adopt the child. They are childless ineni-selves, ineni-selves, and promised the rnv a good home artd education. Mr. Taylor's income, in-come, he testified was ?J50 a year, and he has property worth ?20,ftCK They sought to sain custody of the boy through the leaal claim the father might have on htm, now that the mother is dead." The supreme court, as the lower court, found it a delicate question to deride, but the decision takes the .n round that it is in the best interests of the hoy that he go to- his uncle and aunt. It is pointed out that the grandmother is becoming feeb; that Christensen, in the nature 1 of tilings, may marry again, and that in that event the future of the child cannot be considered as assured. On the other hand, the Taylors have promised "that the litt le boy will be treated wl th every consideration a nd kindness, and that every effort will be made by them tending lo promote the ! present ha opines k and future usefulness of the child, and that his surroundings will be of such pleasant nature and such kindness and consideration will bo shown him as will cause him to become attached at-tached to and fond of his adopted parents." |