Dungan v. Dungan

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing Orrin Dungan’s habeas corpus suit for custody of his two minor daughters, who are presently in the custody of his divorced wife, Mrs. Lonora Dungan. These children, Netta Yvonne and Ettie Sue, were about ten and nine years old at the time the judgment was rendered in January, 1957.

Orrin and Lonora Dungan were married in 1943 in Bossier City, Louisiana, while Dungan was in the Air Corps stationed at Barksdale Field. Of this marriage were borii the two children whose custody the father seeks. Mr. and Mrs. Dungan moved to Missouri,…