Grose v. Romero

On July 16, 1947, petitioner, Venita Romero, filed in the county court of Tillman county her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that she was the mother of Dorothy Faye Wood and Larry Wood, minors aged eight and six years, respectively, whose father was dead; that *331respondent Fannie Grose unlawfully and forcibly detained said children in her custody contrary to the wishes of the children and petitioner; that respondent was allowed to keep said children by petitioner’s husband while petitioner was in ill health and confined in the hospital; that petitioner has regained her health,…