Legal Opinion
In Re De Leon
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 29, 1943No. Crim. 3712PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BISHOP, J. pro tem.
By this proceeding, initiated by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the father of Tillie De Leon, a ten year old girl of Mexican parentage, born in California, seeks a coercive order of this court taking Tillie from her maternal grandmother and giving her into the custody of the petitioner. We have concluded that the order sought should not be made.
Tillie first became the subject of court action in 1939 when her maternal grandmother was made guardian of her person. By a judgment entered on the eleventh day of March of this year, the 1939 letters of guardianship were…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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