IN RE APPLICATION OF WARD

No. 31749.

39 Wn.2d 894 (1952)

239 P.2d 560

In the Matter of the Application of WILLIS WARD et al., for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

January 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crippen & Flynn, for appellants.

Copeland & Tollefson, for respondent.


SCHWELLENBACH, C.J.

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court for Pierce county, granting a writ of habeas corpus to respondents, the parents of the child, whose custody they sought to recover from appellants, the paternal grandmother and step-grandfather.

February 6, 1944, Dorothy Ward, who then lived in Forest Grove, Oregon, and whose husband was in the service, brought the boy to Tacoma and gave...

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