McRae v. Lamb

NORVELL, Justice.

This is a child custody case. The appellants are Frank L. McRae, Jr., and his wife, Dorothy Y. McRae, who sought to adopt Peter Ulric Kirley, the minor son of Thomas U. Kirley and his wife, Dorothy Kirley. Appellees are Carter H. Lamb and Victoria Lamb, the parents of Dorothy Kir-ley. The order appealed from was entered in a consolidated case wherein the petition for adoption was combined with an application for writ of habeas 'corpus filed by ap-pellees.

The judge of the district court awarded the custody of the child to its natural mother, Dorothy Kirley, and appellants…