Raymond v. Geving

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Mercer county awarding to the petitioner the custody of his infant daughter Karen Alice Raymond.

In April 1945 the petitioner applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus and in his petition he alleged he is the father of the infant child Karen Alice Raymond, who is two years of age, and that his wife, the mother of the child, is dead. He set forth that from the time the child was born until April 5,1945 he had had the custody of the child, but that on said day he had permitted the defendant, who is the sister of the…