Ahearn v. Burch

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Hughes, J.), entered September 24, 1982 in Rensselaer County, which sustained a writ of habeas corpus and directed respondent to surrender custody of an infant, Katherine Quinn Dwyer, to petitioners. The parties to this protracted custody dispute have been before this court on several occasions, the most recent appearances culminating in our determinations in the cases of Decatur v Ahearn and Matter of Burch v Ahearn which were decided in a joint decision (89 AD2d 742, mot for lv to app den sub nom. Dwyer v Ahearn, 57 NY2d 609,…