Cook v. Cook

ARNOLD, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court in a habeas corpus proceeding which directs appellant, Annette Hord Cook, the mother of three children, 9, 12 and 14 years of age, to deliver them into the custody of appellee, George T. Cook, who is their grandfather.

The mother had originally been granted the custody of the children in 1936 by the Supreme Court of Erie County, New York, as part of a decree giving her an absolute divorce. She had then moved to Washington with the children, sending them back for short periods to visit their father. In 1939 the…