State ex rel. Ward v. Superior Court

This is, in form, a proceeding for a writ of prohibition. For the reasons stated below, however, it will *433be treated as an original application to have this court set aside a void order staying execution of a judgment in a cause now on appeal to this court.

Willis and Dorothy Ward, the natural parents of seven-year-old Warren Layne Ward, instituted a habeas corpus proceeding to recover the custody of the child from its paternal grandmother and step-grandfather, Ada and Frank Faraco. The parents had left the boy with the Faracos in February, 1944, when the child was four months old and its…