Commonwealth ex rel. Turner v. Strange

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The lower court in this case dismissed the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus through which she was seeking the right to visit her two children. The court was in error.

The petitioner -was 16 when she married the respondent. They had two children Roberta, born October 18, 1942 and .Jesse born October 24, 1944. The parties separated in March 1947 and were divorced in November of that year. The father remarried in 1948 and the mother in • 1952. There is evidence that prior to the separation the mother drank, stayed out al] night, and was frequently in the…