State ex rel. Sparks v. Reeves

THORNAL, Justice.. Appellant Charles B. Sparks was petitioner below in a habeas corpus proceeding whereby as natural . father he sought to obtain the custody of his two minor children from appellee (respondent . below) Mrs. A. E. Reeves, their maternal grandmother. The natural mother of the children and late wife of the appellant died early in December, 1952. At that time one of the children, Charles Andrew Sparks, was 21 months old, and the other, Morrie Inez Sparks, was 3 • da'y-s oíd.'

The appellant, his late wife and the two children resided in California at the time of the death of the…