In Re Benfield

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by appellee, Aaron Benfield, against appellants, Ruth Palmer and Coyt Palmer, to recover custody of a minor child, Linda Joyce Benfield. The appellant, Ruth Palmer, daughter of the appellee, is the natural mother of the minor child.

The appellee alleged in his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus that appellants had illegally restrained such minor child of her liberty in Potter County, Texas, and that by virtue of a final adoption decree entered on July 10, 1967, in the Probate Court for the Western District of Craig-head County,…