Ogden v. Doss

STEINFELD, Chief Justice.

On June 24, 1971, appellee Edward Doss, a resident of Ohio, filed in the Garrard Circuit Court a petition for a writ of ha-beas corpus seeking to gain possession of Eddie Doss, Jr., sometimes referred to as Edward Shane Ogden, an infant 18 months *828old. The respondents, John and Reba May, Kentucky residents who are husband and wife, contesting the right of Doss to obtain the child filed an affidavit of appellant Jean Ogden, hereinafter referred to as Jean, in which she swore that on October 19, 1969, the child was born out of wedlock, but that she “. . . was living…