People ex rel. Spreckels v. deRuyter

By this habeas corpus proceeding the mother of two infants seeks to regain their custody. Their father has possessed them since June 3, 1932, under a separation agreement.

Both children are boys. One is aged four years and ten months and the other two years and seven months.

Contemporaneously with the separation agreement the parents were divorced in Nevada, but the decree omits mention of the custody of the children. On July 15,1932, the mother married Adolph Spreckels, of San Francisco, a man of substantial means, who has appeared before me personally and beseeched the care of the children.

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