Turner v. Children's Home Society of Virginia, Inc.

The Children’s Home Society of Virginia, for convenience hereinafter called the Society, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, praying that Samuel Turner and Alice A. Turner, his wife, hereinafter called petitioners, be required to return to the Society, Anne Marie DeShazo, an infant. From an order granting the writ of habeas corpus restoring the custody of the infant to the Society, the petitioners obtained from this court a writ of error.

The Society based its right to the custody of the infant *410on the following grounds: That it was incorporated under the Virginia law to “care for…