Pena v. Snare

HALE, Justice.

This suit involves the custody of a child. It was instituted on September 7, 1945, by the child’s mother, suing individually and as next friend, against appellee as supervisor of McLennan County Child Welfare Unit. The objects of the suit were (1) to set aside a prior judgment rendered by the court below on February 28, 1945 decreeing the child to be dependént and neglected and committing its custody to appellee and (2) to require appellee by mandatory injunction to deliver the child to its mother. Appellee answered, among other things, with two exceptions, thereby asserting…