MINOR CHILDREN OF F.B. v. CARUTHERS

No. 30246.

323 S.W.2d 397 (1959)

In the Matter of the MINOR CHILDREN OF F. B., Their Mother, Petitioner, v. Eileen CARUTHERS, County Director of the Cape Girardeau County Welfare Office, and Virginia Miller, Louise Wright and Edna Gerlach of the Cape Girardeau County Welfare Office, Respondents.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

April 21, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Murray, Cape Girardeau, for petitioner.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Cape Girardeau, for respondents.


WOLFE, Presiding Judge.

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus brought by the mother of three minor children to obtain custody of the children who are presently in the custody of the Director of Welfare for the County of Cape Girardeau. The children were placed in such custody by an order of the juvenile court upon a finding that they were neglected within the meaning of the statute defining neglected children. The writ is predicated upon the proposition...

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