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RICE v. MESSINGHAM

No. 48203.

55 N.W.2d 925 (1952)

RICE v. MESSINGHAM et al.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 16, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beecher & Beecher, Waterloo, for appellants.

Pike, Sias, Butler & Hoxie, Waterloo, and Cherny & Cherny, Independence, for appellee.

MANTZ, Justice.

This is a child custody case. Bernice Rice, mother of her three year old minor daughter, Janie Raye Rice, brought action by habeas corups to obtain her custody from Elmer and Grace Messingham, uncle and aunt of Bernice Rice. The writ was sustained and defendants appeal.

I. Before taking up the legal phases of the controversy we will briefly refer to some of the pertinent facts. For convenience we will refer to Bernice Rice, the mother of the...

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