Application of Lear

HALLEY, Justice.

Everett Arnold Lear applied to the District Court of Oklahoma County for a writ of habeas corpus requiring Patty Jeanne Groves and Billy Joseph Groves to bring before the court a minor child, Adrian Ann Groves, formerly Adrian Ann Lear, and that he be granted total or partial custody of said minor. Respondents filed a demurrer to the petition which was sustained by the court and the writ denied.

The evidence introduced consisted of the record in the District Court case of Leaf v.. Lear, a divorce action, from which it appears that:

On July 18, 1944, Everett Arnold Lear and Patty…