Brown v. Cook

WADE, Justice.

Plaintiff Tommie Maurine Brown, respondent here, instituted habeas corpus proceedings to gain custody of Ronald Glen Cook, her three year old son, from defendants Harold and Cora Cook, his paternal grandparents. Glen H. Cook, father of the child, was out of the state in the military services and not available for service of process at the time the action was commenced and he was not made a party to the action. He left the child in his parents’ custody. In June, 1952 the father and mother were divorced in an action commenced by her in Wyoming where she was then living, but…