Mays v. Mays

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

The appellee instituted habeas corpus proceedings in the Perry Circuit Court to recover the custody of his two granddaughters, ages three and one and one-half years. The appellant, defendant below, is the mother of the children and the daughter-in-law of the appellee. The father of the children is dead.

The appellee was appointed administrator of the estate of his son, as well as legal guardian of the children. At present he has control of the children’s money which, under the judgment of the lower court, he would use to keep them in an orphans ’ home.

The appellant owns…