Arnd't v. Prose

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus case, in which the appellee is attempting to obtain the custody of her illegitimate child, Orville Junior Moseley, aged twelve, now in the custody of the appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Arnd’t. The appellee alleged in her petition that she is the natural mother of the child and that the appellants are unlawfully restraining him from returning to her.

From the allegations of the Arnd’ts’ answer to the writ, it appears that Orville Junior is the son of Mrs. Arnd’t’s brother, Orville Moseley; that, at appellee’s request, Moseley took custody of the child when he…