Legal Opinion

Ellerbe v. Hooks

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 16, 1980No. 463Published

1Opinion of the Court

490 Pa. 363 (1980)

416 A.2d 512

Mary ELLERBE, Appellant,

v.

Edward HOOKS.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued April 15, 1980.

Decided July 16, 1980.

Julian E. Harmon, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Samuel Kravitz, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a child custody case involving a dispute between a parent and a non-parent. The case arose on the petition of the child's father seeking custody of his daughter Carla. Carla, then eleven years old, had been living with her maternal…

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2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Stanley v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  3. Prince v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
  4. Skinner v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. WilliamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  5. Moore v. City of East ClevelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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