Byers v. Superior Court

This litigation is over which of the divorced parents is entitled to the custody of their two minor children, but the particular question now presented to this court is what superior court of the state has, under the facts, jurisdiction to decide that question.

Y. Clare Dodd and Jane Byland intermarried in Denver, Colorado, May 15, 1933, and thereafter lived together as husband and wife in Tucson, Arizona, until January, 1938, when the wife left or deserted her husband and took their two minor children, Harriett Mary, born May 22,1935, and Ann Shirley, born April 22, 1936, to Denver, Colorado.

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