STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE v. PETTREY

No. 10780.

92 S.E.2d 917 (1956)

STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE v. William J. PETTREY et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided May 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen., Harold A. Bangert, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for relator.

Ajax Smith, Princeton, for respondents.


GIVEN, Judge.

In this original proceeding in habeas corpus, the State Department of Public Assistance prays that a writ be issued directing that defendants, William J. Pettrey and Elva Pettrey, deliver custody of an infant, Charles Anthony Jackson, to petitioner.

The infant was born March 23, 1955, at a sanitarium in West Virginia. The mother, an unmarried woman, at the time of the birth, was over twenty one years of age and a citizen of another state. On...

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