Johnson v. Walden

CULLEN, Commissioner.

In Walden v. Johnson (1967), Ky., 417 S.W.2d 220, this court held that Vada J. Walden, an Indiana-domiciled maternal aunt of six-year-old Timothy Paul Johnson, had the immediate legal right to the possession of Timothy, and that she was entitled to judgment awarding her such possession in her habeas corpus action in Monroe County, Kentucky, against the Kentucky-domiciled paternal grandparents. Upon issuance of our mandate on that appeal the circuit court did enter judgment as we directed. However, when Mrs. Walden thereafter came to Kentucky to obtain possession of…