Stapler v. Leamons

LlTZ, PRESIDENT :

The petitioner R. R. Stapler seeks by writ of habeas corpus to obtain from the respondents, M. Louise Leamons and J. E. Skaggs, the custody of his infant child, Edward Russell Stapler.

M. Louise Leamons is the daughter of J. E. Skaggs, who for many years has lived with his family in the city of Charleston. January 11, 1919, when but eighteen, she intermarried with R. R. Stapler, thirty-eight years of age. The child, Edward Russell Stapler, was born to this union April 11, 1922. They lived together after the marriage, first in Chicago, next in Charleston, and then in Dallas,…