Hughes v. Cain

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

This appeal involves the validitj^ of an order of adoption of Sidney Pat Cain, the seven-year-old son of appellee, Mrs. Sidney Cain, by appellant, Catherine Pink Hughes, the child’s paternal great-aunt. Appellee filed her petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Pulaski Chancery Court on October 3, 1945, to secure the custody of her son from appellant.

The record discloses the following facts which appear from the allegations of the petition for habeas corpus and the exhibits thereto attached: Appellee resides with her husband and their second child in the state of…