State ex rel. Copell v. Marusak

FRUGÉ, Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding whereby the relatrix, Mary Lee Copell, is seeking the custody of her son, Robert Joseph Sullivan, who was heretofore in the custody of the defendants-appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Marusak. On the merits, the trial court ordered the return of the child to the plaintiff-appellee from which judgment and order the defendants have effected this de-volutive appeal.

The background to this litigation is that Mary Lee Copell was married to Arvel Sullivan in 1961 at the age of sixteen years. In 1963, they were separated, but by then, Mrs. Copell had given birth…