Johnson v. Campbell

Anna Johnson and her husband, H. L. Johnson, residents of Oklahoma City, Okla., filed this suit in the district court of Guadalupe county, in the nature of a writ of habeas corpus, complaining of Eva Campbell and her husband, E. B. Campbell, residents of Guadalupe county, Tex., alleging that they illegally held the custody of Emma Gene Weiten, who was born November 13, 1925, to Mrs. Johnson, then Mrs. Nick Weiten.

Mrs. Johnson alleged, substantially, that her husband, Nick Weiten, died during the year 1927, and that thereafter she gave the temporary custody of said child to the Campbells, and…