Commonwealth Ex Rel. Self v. Self

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The correct title to this case should be Commonwealth ex rel. Ruth Boldstridge v. William Self and Zoe Self. It was Ruth Boldstridge, not Florence Self, who filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain possession of her five year old daughter, Florence Self, now in the custody of the respondents. After the child, following a hearing, was awarded by the court below to the mother we ordered that the appeal taken to this court should operate as a supersedeas.

The testimony disclosed that Ruth Boldstridge in 1935, when she was nineteen years of age, met William…