Interest of Nesler Ex Rel. Nesler v. Nesler

REES, Justice.

Daphne Nesler Kitley, to whom in the interest of clarity we will refer here as plaintiff, instituted an action for habeas corpus in the district court of Webster County, Iowa, seeking to obtain custody of her son, Mark Anthony Nesler, who was residing with his father, the divorced spouse of the plaintiff, at Moorland, Iowa. The defendant father of the child filed answer and cross-petition seeking to modify a California divorce decree which gave custody of the child to the plaintiff. Subsequently, the plaintiff filed a petition in the same case praying for the entry of judgment…