People Ex Rel. Pace v. Wood

WRIGHT, JUSTICE.

This is a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus brought in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois, to secure custody of a five-year-old boy, Russell Gene Jacobs. The petitioner, Rose Marie Pace, is the twenty-five-year-old natural mother of the child, who is divorced from the father of the child and has since remarried. The respondent, Eula Wood, is the child’s paternal grandmother and respondent, Jack Wood, is her second husband. The father, C. R. Jacobs, is remarried and takes no part in this proceedings.

Although the evidence is conflicting, it would appear that C. R.…