Wells v. Stanger

MR. JUSTICE FREEBOURN:

This is an appeal from an order of the Honorable William E. Taylor, district judge of the third judicial district of the state of Montana, in and for Granite county, denying the petition in a habeas corpus proceeding for the possession and custody of a minor child.

On July 7, 1948, John E. Wells, plaintiff and appellant, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, showing, among other things: That he was the father of Mary Ellen Wells, a six-year-old girl; that the child’s mother, Laura Jean Wells, was petitioner’s former Avife; that he secured a divorce from Laura Jean…