Fleming v. Reeves

Jordan, Justice.

The judgment under review in this appeal is one remanding the custody of a six-year-old boy to the child’s maternal step-grandmother in a habeas corpus suit.

Appellant, Joyce Reeves Fleming, claims the child as its natural mother. Appellee, Joicy V. Reeves claims legal custody by virtue of appellant’s voluntary release of her parental rights. The undisputed facts show that since April, 1974, the subject child has lived with appellee and *412her husband, now deceased, the child’s maternal grandfather. After the death of her father,, appellant on August 6, 1978 removed the child from…