Jones v. Crompton

This is an appeal from an order quashing a writ of habeas corpus, the application for which was in substance an attempt on the part of a father to regain custody of his minor children. In July, 1948, the children were made wards of the court and were, by its order, remanded to the custody of the Skagit county welfare department for placement in a suitable foster home. Pursuant to that order, they were placed in the Parkland Lutheran Children’s Home.

It is agreed that this proceeding is not an attack upon the order of July, 1948, but is an effort to show that conditions have changed to such an…