In re Cowan

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

This is an original proceeding in this court wherein a petition for writ of habeas corpus was filed and presented on May 1, 1957, which disclosed that Birdie Cowan was the natural mother of Roberta Ann Cowan, a minor child of the age of three years; that on the 30th day of April, 1957, the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Lewis and Clark, awarded custody of the child to Bill and Lee McGuire on a petition alleging that they are residents of Spokane, Washington, following a hearing upon a petition filed in…