Loucka v. State Department of Social Welfare

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.

This original proceeding for a writ of habeas corpus presents the pitiful plea of a young mother who has lost her little daughter by the process of the law. The story of the legal interference with providential preference follows.

When the petitioner was only a little more than a child herself she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor before a justice of the peace and was committed to the Kansas Industrial Farm for Women. At the time she entered the institution there existed in- expectation the child involved in this action. The father of the child…