State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Ashmore

ROGERS, Justice.

Richard M. Johnson and Vivian Ash-more were married on September 23, 1937. O.f this marriage twin boys, Roy Richard Johnson and Ray Joseph Johnson, were born on December 22, 1938. On May 13, 1939, Richard M. Johnson and his wife separated, the latter returning to the home of her parents.

This proceeding is by habeas corpus brought by Richard M. Johnson against his wife, Vivian Ashmore Johnson, and her parents, Joseph M. Ashmore and Mrs. Charity Ashmore, to obtain the custody of his twin children, who were twenty-three months of age at the time of the trial of the case, on…