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LOWE v. GRASTY

122 S.E.2d 867 (1961)

203 Va. 168

Anna Frances Jones LOWE v. Taylor P. GRASTY et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

November 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance M. Fry, Orange (Higginbotham & Fry, Orange, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

R. D. McIlwaine, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Frederick T. Gray, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendants in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, JJ.

BUCHANAN, Justice.

On August 15, 1960, the appellant, Anna Frances Jones Lowe, mother of Michael Daniel Jones, born July 28, 1955, filed in the Circuit Court of Orange county a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the custody of her son, naming as respondents Taylor P. Grasty and the other two members of the Orange County Department of Public Welfare, together with Ruth C. Potts, Superintendent of said department.

The petitioner alleged that...

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