Duncan v. Davis

DONALDSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by two social service agencies from a district court judgment awarding control and custody of a child to its natural mother. The mother had petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus in order to secure the return of her son whom she claimed had been unlawfully taken from her. The case does not involve the undoing of an adoption but rather whether the natural mother made a surrender of the child. This case presented an issue of fact to the trial court and for various reasons it found that the surrender, or signing of the required form, was…