Austin v. Collins

SPEER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adverse judgment entered at a non jury trial wherein Charlene Austin and husband Elwood Austin sued Clarence L. Collins and his wife, Laura Mae Collins. Plaintiffs sought dual relief; namely: (1) Review and setting aside of a judgment of adoption for specified reasons, and (2) By habeas corpus to recover custody of a child.

The record before us, in chronological order, shows the following matters leading up to the judgment from which this appeal was prosecuted: Charlene Bice (now Charlene Austin) was 18 years old and unwed, living in another part of the…