Commonwealth v. Yarnell

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

The possession of a boy, Kenneth P. Thompson, bom June 2, 1922, is the subject of this controversy between his father and mother, who were married in 1912, and who were divorced in the State of Delaware by a decree nisi in September, 1925, and by a final decree in 1928. Habeas corpus proceedings were instituted by the father in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County in August, 1930, and a writ issued. The petition alleged that Else I. Thompson, the child’s mother was living with one Llewellyn R. Yarnell, the other respondent, as the latter’s wife, and that…