State Ex Rel. Bryant v. Warrick Circuit Court

Relators, by this action, seek to compel the Warrick Circuit Court to grant a change of judge in a proceeding for the custody of a child under Acts 1907, ch. 41, §3, p. 59, being §9-2808, Burns’ 1942 Replacement, and Acts 1945, ch. 356, §16, p. 1724, being §9-3216, Burns’ 1942 Repl. (1953 Cum. Supp.).

The petition for custody was filed in the Warrick Circuit Court on June 4, 1953, and recited that the child in question was born to relator Hazel Irene Duff Bryant on February 18, 1949; that the child has been illegally held by the Warrick County Department of Public Welfare from the date of its…