In Re Application of Ward

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court for Pierce county, granting a writ of habeas corpus to respondents, the parents of the child, whose custody they sought to recover from appellants, the paternal grandmother and step-grandfather.

February 6, 1944, Dorothy Ward, who then lived in Forest Grove, Oregon, and whose husband was in the service, brought the boy to Tacoma and gave him to her husband’s mother for keeping. She was going to visit her husband before he went overseas. The boy was then four months old. From then until the hearing (when the boy was seven years of age) the…