Freeman v. Baker

This habeas corpus proceeding to adjudicate the custody of the infant, Tarnnese Freeman, was tried by the court on July 9, 1969 and July 10, 1969, at which time the court found the following facts:

On February 20, 1967, a decree was rendered by the Probate Court of Mobile County, Alabama, by which petitioner and his wife adopted the said infant. Respondent, the natural mother of the child, had previously signed a consent to the decree of adoption. In May, 1968 the infant visited with respondent in *457the City of New York. Upon respondent’s failure to return the child to her adoptive parents in…