De Loach v. Moore

McGILL, Justice.

Appellants are husband and wife. By application for a writ of habeas corpus filed in the Forty-first Judicial District Court of El Paso County they sought to obtain from appellee the custody of Gaylen Ross, a boy about five years of age, the child of appellant Loraine DeLoach and her former husband, Owen Ross. Petitioners alleged that appellant Loraine De-Loach had been legally divorced from her husband, Owen Ross, in El Paso, Texas; that she and her former husband had agreed that each should have equal custody of the minor for a period of six months, and that the decree of…