Standley v. Stewart

POPE, Justice.

Dorothy Standley, our relator, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel Judge Wells Stewart, Judge of the Court of Domestic Relations, Number One of Harris County, to vacate his order denying her petition for writ of habeas corpus and to proceed to trial and judgment in accord with Section 14.10 of the Family Code. 1

A judgment of the Harris County Domestic Relations Court on March 14, 1969, decreed a divorce between relator Dorothy Standley and her former husband, George Haynes. That judgment also decreed that Neal, who was then eight years old, should be placed in the custody of his…