Finn v. Rees

On April 28, 1942, appellant petitioned the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District for a writ of habeas corpus wherein among other things it is alleged that petitioner: “is the natural father of Winefred Ann Finn, born September 10, 1937, and Walter G. Finn, born November 30, 1938, to your petitioner and his lawful wife, Mary Alice Madge Finn, who died during February, 1941.

“That said children are unjustly and unlawfully detained from your petitioner, their father and natural guardian, by H. L. Rees and Bernice Rees at Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, and the illegality of their…