CORNISH v. BAKER


243 S.W.2d 911 (1951)

CORNISH v. BAKER et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Grigsby, Springfield, for appellant.

Polin & Polin, Springfield, for appellees.


CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying Roy Cornish a writ of habeas corpus in the Washington County Court.

In his petition for the writ Cornish charged that Will and Myrtle Baker were wrongfully holding his nine year old daughter, Betty Lou Cornish. In their "Plea to Jurisdiction and Answer" the Bakers set forth a judgment in a divorce proceeding between Irene Cornish and Roy Cornish. The parties were divorced and Roy was granted...

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