Green v. Kennedy

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

Mrs. Marie Kennedy instituted this habeas corpus proceeding to obtain the custody of her three year old illegitimate child, Wanda Lee Combs. Mrs. Kennedy, whose maiden name was Marie Pelfry, lived with her aunt, the appellant, Mrs. Freda Green, in Hazard for a while after the child was born. When she left Hazard she left the child with her aunt. A second illegitimate child was born to Mrs. Kennedy while she was in Louisville. Subsequently, under the name of Marie Combs, she married a man by the name of Kennedy, who was a coal miner, in Virginia.…