Sims v. Pope

Grice, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding which awarded custody of two children to their father upon the ground that he had legitimated them by virtue of Code § 74-103.

The father, Willie Jones Pope, filed a petition in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, against the children’s grandmother, Bessie Sims, alleging in substance the following: that he had legitimated them on a named date, that their mother is dead; that the children are being illegally detained from his custody by the grandmother; that he is willing to support them and did support them until she…