Cox v. Wicks

TIREY, Justice.

This is a child custody case. Miss Edith Cox of Lynchburg, Virginia filed a petition in the district court of Dallas comity in which she alleged substantially that John Lambert Stephens, Jr., a minor child of the state of Virginia, who was in her lawful care, is now illegally restrained of his liberty by respondents of Dallas County, Texas. She prayed for writ of habeas corpus and asked that the child, upon hearing, be discharged from such restraint and *980restored to the custody of the petitioner, and for such decrees to which she was entitled.

■A. H. Mason, the qualified and…