Hilburn v. Blount

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by Felix Lamar Hilburn' against his former wife Margaret Edna Blount •and her second husband George Weldon Blount to secure the custody of Felix Marshall Hilburn, a minor child born to the marriage of petitioner and respondent Margaret Edna Blount. Petitioner alleged that the said child had been previously awarded to him by judgment” of á proper court at the time he was divorced from the said respondent but that the child was then being illegally held and restrained by respondents, who answered with a general denial and a plea…