Hollick v. McDaniel

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

The present action was instituted upon an application by petitioner, Mrs. Hollick, for a writ of habeas corpus directing respondent, Mrs. McDaniel, to bring into court Franki Ann Cocanougher, petitioner’s nine-year-old daughter by her divorced husband, Frank M. Cocanougher. Respondent is Cocanougher’s 66-year-old mother.

Petitioner and Cocanougher, who was her second husband, were married in 1952. The first year of their marriage they lived with respondent. In 1956, they moved to Houston, Texas, where, shortly thereafter, petitioner became a laboratory assistant for a doctor…