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PEOPLE EX REL. KARR v. WEIHE

Gen. No. 11,480.

30 Ill. App.2d 361 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 897

People of the State of Illinois, ex rel. Eunice Karr, the Mother of Baby Boy Karr, Also Known as Douglas Daniel Karr, Jr., a Minor, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Rev. LeRoy F. Weihe, Executive Director of the Nachusa Lutheran Home for Children, a Charitable Corporation, Harry R. Bates and Anna Lou Bates, Respondents-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, Second Division.

Rehearing denied June 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Keefe, of Rock Island, for appellant.

Besse & Besse, of Sterling, and Harold R. Nettles, of Freeport, for appellee.

CROW, P.J.

The petitioner-appellant, Eunice Karr, the natural mother of Baby Boy Karr, also known as Douglas Daniel Karr, Jr., initiated proceedings for a writ of habeas corpus on March 17, 1960, the writ being returnable March 24, 1960, to recover custody of her infant son from an Illinois licensed child welfare agency, the Nachusa Lutheran Home for Children, which had received custody of the child four days after his birth by virtue of purported surrenders and consents...

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