Bullard v. Welch

The appellant’s minor daughter, who is now four years of age, has been in the possession and custody of his married daughter and her husband since she was nine days old, and he instituted this habeas corpus proceeding to recover the custody of this child.

Appellees, J. Q. Welch and his wife, Lena Welch, answered the petition, and alleged that the appellant abandoned the child when it was only nine days old, when, at the suggestion and request of both the appellant and the child’s mother in her dying moments, she was placed in the custody of the appellees with the distinct understanding* that…