Peck v. Shierling

Mobley, Justice.

This is a review of a judgment awarding custody of an eleven year old boy to the boy’s aunt and her hus band, in a habeas corpus proceeding brought by the mother, the sole surviving parent of. the child, against the aunt and her husband.

The record shows that the father and the mother of the son married on May 9, 1951, and in a divorce and custody proceeding-brought by the husband against his wife, petitioner here, on the ground of adultery, to which the wife made no response, a divorce was, on August 27,1963, granted both parties and custody of their nine year old son was…