COOK v. COOK

No. 8419.

135 F.2d 945 (1943)

COOK v. COOK.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 17, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P. Bateman Ennis, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Edgar J. Goodrich, of Washington, D. C., with whom Miss Mildred E. Reeves and Mr. Walter J. Brobyn, both of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON and ARNOLD, Associate Justices, and EICHER, Chief Justice of the District Court, sitting by designation.


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...

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