Williams v. Williams

Petitioner seeks by habeas corpus to obtain from respondent the custody of Kathryn Annette Williams, a minor child, eleven years of age.

Petitioner’s first wife died in February, 1936, about three weeks after the birth of their said child, Kathryn Annette Williams. The following September, petitioner, then a student at the University of Kansas, married the respondent, also a student in that institution. The said infant child of the petitioner was placed in the care of her maternal grandparents for the following one and a half or two years. Thereafter she lived with the-petitioner and…