State ex rel. Jones v. West
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sheiby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to -the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— BeN L. Capell, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice GreeN
This is a habeas corpus proceeding, brought by Chester E. Jones against the officers of the juvenile court in Memphis to obtain the custody of his minor child, Chester E. Jones, Jr.
Two or three days before this petition was filed, certain proceedings were had in the juvenile court in Memphis to which Chester E. Jones was a party, and ir was there adjudged that the best interests of the child required that its custody be intrusted to a woman in Memphis, formerly a nurse. An order to this effect was accordingly entered, and in other pro*524ceedings bad in the juvenile court the father, Chester R.…
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