Glover v. Sink

This habeas corpus case involves a contest for possession and custody of a minor child between the appellant-mother and the appellee-paternal grandmother of the child.

Custody of the child had previously been awarded to the appellee by the decree of a Maryland court. That decree provided for visitation rights in the appellant, and after a visit by the child with the appellant in Glynn County, Georgia, the appellant refused to return possession of the child to the appellee. The appellee brought this habeas corpus action below to recover possession of the child and relied on a certified copy of…