Legal Opinion

Crahan v. N. R.

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 26, 1979No. 18124Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

In a suit by Naida Crahan to regain custody of her natural born minor child the judgment of the trial court, sitting without a jury, denied transfer and deprivation of such custody from N. R. and L. R., who had continued in possession of the child since it was three days old. She appealed.

We affirm.

Actually the form of suit was as by petition for relief by habeas corpus. By the subject matter it was a simple suit for custody of a child; it will so be treated.

Naida Crahan conceived and bore the minor child in question by a man other than her husband. Her husband…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Dewitt v. BrooksTexas Supreme Court · 1944
  2. Hendricks v. CurryTexas Supreme Court · 1966
  3. Van Wart v. Van WartCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1973

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