DE FUR v. SPEERS

No. 16189.

369 S.W.2d 850 (1963)

Johnny DE FUR et ux., Appellants, v. Tommy L. SPEERS et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Flannigan, Sample & Patterson, J. Tom Sample, Dallas, for appellants.

Gibbs & Hooks, Dallas, for appellees.


BATEMAN, Justice.

This habeas corpus proceeding involves the right to custody of two little boys. Appellees alleged that they were the natural parents; that appellants obtained possession of the children by fraudulent misrepresentation inducing the natural mother to surrender such possession, but that the natural father had never consented to adoption or given legal authority to the appellants to restrain such minor children. Appellants answered that Tommy...

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