Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Adams

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided October 9, 1917No. 9070PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Error from District Court, Garvin County; P. B. Swank, Judge. Habeas corpus by P. Buel Adams, Sr., against Julia G. Campbell, to obtain custody of his infant son, P. Buel Adams, Jr. Judgment .for petitioner, and respondent brings errer.

1Opinion of the CourtBrett, J.

This is an ación by P. Buel Adams, Sr., who will be referred to as petitioner, to obtain custody of his infant son P. Buel Adams, Jr. The respondent, Mrs. Julia G. Campbell, is the maternal grandmother of the child. Its mother died in 1916, and the grandmother has had custody of the child since her death, and had the care of it to a large extent even during the lifetime of its mother, and she resists the petitioner having the custody and control of the child on the ground that he is unfit, and we think the record bears out this contention.

The father of the child began courting a woman within…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jamison v. Gilbert Et Ux.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Morris v. MorrisSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1921

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