Cleaver v. Johnson

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is a venue case. Appellee, Green Johnson, instituted habeas corpus proceedings in Cherokee County, his place of residence, against appellant, W. G. Cleaver, a resident of Dallas County, to recover possession of Charles Edward Johnson, a minor. Charles, the son of Louisa Johnson, the unmarried daughter of Green Johnson and his wife, Priscilla, was born September 16, 1938, in the grandparents’ home in Cherokee County, Texas, where the mother continued to live until her death on December 3, 1946, and where the child continued to live and be cared for by the grandparents as…