Welch v. Welch

McGehee, O. J.

On February 23,1949, the appellants, J. K. Welch, and his wife, Marjorie Welch, of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, instituted this habeas corpus proceeding to regain the custody and care of their little girl, Christina Lynn Welch, who was then one year of age. The defendants to the proceeding are Clyde Welch, a half-brother of the child’s father and a resident citizen of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and his wife, Mrs. Pauline Welch, who had, on February 20, 1948, obtained an adoption decree in the chancery court of said County, av hereby they adopted the said child as their…