Clayton v. Newton

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

Douglas Newton filed this habeas corpus action in a Wichita County District Court on December 19, 1974, against Mary Clayton, the maternal grandmother of his three children. He sought therein to recover the custody of said children, namely, Tammy Kay Newton, Sandra Lynn Newton, and Douglas McArthur Newton, Jr., from the grandmother. On January 31, 1975, the trial court rendered judgment in the case and awarded the custody of the three children to the father, and ordered the grandmother to deliver the children to him. This is an appeal by the grandmother from that…