Fulks v. Walker

This petition for a rule requiring the clerk of this court to issue a writ of certiorari to bring up the record made in the court below, later followed by a tender of that record, raises for determination certain procedural questions in the review of habeas corpus proceedings for child custody.

In September of 1954 the respondent in this court, Martha Fulks Walker, filed her petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Independence Chancery Court, seeking to obtain from her former husband the custody of the parties ’ three minor children. After a prompt hearing the chancellor, by a decree dated…