Sinquefield v. Valentine

The appellant, H. B. Sinquefield, filed a petition in the county court of Jones county for the custody of his two children, H. B. Sinquefield, Jr., aged five years, and Mary Elizabeth Sinquefield, aged four years, alleging that W. P. Valentine and Mrs. W. P. Valentine, grandparents of the children, unlawfully detained said children from the custody of their father without his consent, that petitioner had made demand upon W. P. and Mrs. W. P. Valentine to deliver said children to him, but they had refused to do so, and that they were depriving him of the custody of said children, and he prayed…