Culwell v. Shann

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Retta Freeman Shann, joined by her husband, instituted habeas corpus proceedings against Hornet P. Culwell and wife, Louise Culwell (sister of Mrs. Shann), to obtain the custody and care of Retta’s small son, Edward Freeman, alleged to be illegally confined and restrained of his liberty by the Culwells. The Culwells claimed the mother had verbally given the child to them. That they had become attached to it and desired to keep it, and that the mother was not a proper person to have the custody and rearing of the child. The mother denied all such allegations, and…