New Mexico Department of Public Welfare v. Cromer

BRICE, Chief Justice.

The relator, a New Mexico public corporation, filed a petition in the district court, praying for a writ of habeas corpus, the object of which was to obtain possession of June Whitley Johnson, a female child seven or eight months old. The relator (it is alleged) had placed the child with the respondent for “the purpose of boarding said June Whitley Johnson until such time as the New Mexico Department of Public Welfare (relator) could place her for adoption, pursuant to an agreement entered into between the child’s mother” and the relator.

The fourth paragraph of the…