West v. Hatcher

Grice, Justice.

For review here is the sustaining of a plea of res judicata to a petition for habeas corpus.

The litigation began when Laura M. West filed a petition in the Superior Court of Bibb County seeking custody of certain minor children. She alleged that she is their paternal grand mother, that their parents were granted a divorce by which the father was awarded custody, that he subsequently died, that they have no guardian and a custodian for them is needed, that by reason of petitioner’s care and training of the children she is a fit person for their custodian, and that the children’s…