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JOHNSON v. AUSTIN

No. 2556.

162 A.2d 495 (1960)

Richard JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Rena T. AUSTIN, Guardian of Virgle Johnson, minor, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 28, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goldie S. Paregol, Washington, D. C., with whom Sanford A. Witkowski, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Margaret A. Haywood, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

ROVER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Domestic Relations Branch of the Municipal Court entered after a hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. By its order the court transferred custody of a minor female child from the natural father, appellant, to the maternal grandmother, appellee. The father appeals.

The facts are that after the mother's death the father took his child and went to live with his sister. On May 20, 1958, upon...

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