COM. ex rel. KUNTZ v. STACKHOUSE


176 Pa.Super. 361 (1954)

Commonwealth ex rel. Kuntz v. Stackhouse, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Conwell Welsh, with him Edwin E. Lippincott, 2nd, Hall, Hamilton, Wainwright & Welsh and Kraft, Lippincott & Donaldson, for appellants.

John Rogers Carroll, with him Richard T. McSorley and Raymond F. Stopper, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, ROSS, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE and ERVIN, JJ.


OPINION BY ROSS, J., September 28, 1954:

This habeas corpus proceeding for the custody of Patricia Ann Kuntz, aged two years, was instituted by her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Kovacs, in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County. The respondents, Irene and Robert J. Stackhouse, are the maternal aunt and her husband. After hearings, the court below awarded custody to relatrix, and the respondents have appealed to this Court.

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