Bassett v. SIMS

This is a child custody suit, brought by the mother against the paternal grandparents. Appellant, Mrs. Desta Bassett, filed in the Chancery Court of Jones County, Second District, a petition for writ of habeas corpus for custody of her three children, Grover Sims, 11 years of age, Janice Sims, 8 years, and Roger Sims, 6 years. It was charged that the defendants, W. W. Sims and wife, Ida Sims, unlawfully detained appellant’s children, and that the appellant was their natural mother and a qualified person to have their custody and control. The defendants, the paternal grandparents, filed an…