Whittenberg v. Craven
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Third Supreme Judicial District. Application by Lillian Whittenberg for writ of habeas corpus, to secure possession of a child alleged to be restrained of its liberty by F. A. Craven. A judgment granting the application and awarding the custody of the child to applicant was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals (216 S. W. 251), and applicant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHamilton, J.
Mrs. Lillian Whittenberg, mother of Grace Lee Grimes, a child 9 years of age, filed in the Fifty-Fourth district court of McLennan county, an application for writ of habeas corpus to secure the release and possession of the child, alleging that it was restrained of its liberty by F. A. Craven, acting under an order of the county court of said county.
As the result of a complaint duly filed in the county court of McLennan county, sitting as a juvenile court, charging that Grace Lee Grimes was a dependent child, and in response to the verdict of a jury, returned in the trial of the case, that…
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