Cooke v. Superior Court

Prohibition. Petitioner seeks to prohibit the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the City and County of San Francisco, Department 12 thereof, and the Honorable J. J. Trabucco, judge presiding, from further hearing or determining a proceeding in habeas corpus now pending before said Superior Court, involving the custody of Shirley Cooke, a minor child of the age of five and one-half years.

The facts are as follows: James H. Cooke and Hilda Betty Cooke are husband and wife and are the parents of said Shirley Cooke, all of whom are subjects of Great Britain, and, until…