State ex rel. Parker v. Parker

This is a habeas corpus proceedings whereby Mrs. Bessie Tramel Parker seeks to regain the custody and “entire control” of her son, James Reed Parker, Jr., who was approximately six years of age at the time of the filing of the petition on October 18, 1949. The defendant to the petition is A. 0. Parker, who is the paternal grandfather of the child. He and Mrs. Parker, the child’s paternal grandmother, have had the actual custody and control of this child since he was seventeen months old. The child’s father died in July of 1948. This paternal grandfather objects to the custody of this child…