KELLY v. KELLY

No. 42192.

79 So.2d 307 (1955)

227 La. 275

Percival Betz KELLY v. Nebemiah KELLY, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D'Amico & Curet, Baton Rouge, for respondent-applicant.

Frank S. Craig, Jr., Carlos G. Spaht, Harriet S. Daggett, Emile M. Weber, Philip K. Jones, Steve A. Alford, Jr., Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Bar Ass'n, Inc., Family Court Committee, amicus curiae.

Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Percival Betz Kelly, having secured in California on December 15, 1954, an interlocutory order authorizing a decree of divorce at the expiration of one year and awarding her custody of her minor child, Bruce Thaddeus Kelly, instituted suit against her husband, Nehemiah Kelly, Jr.,1 on December 23, 1954, in the Family Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge by way of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking...

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