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WEST v. HATCHER

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219 Ga. 540 (1964)

134 S.E.2d 603

WEST v. HATCHER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 10, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. L. Crumbley, for plaintiff in error.

GRICE, Justice.

For review here is the sustaining of a plea of res judicata to a petition for habeas corpus.

The litigation began when Laura M. West filed a petition in the Superior Court of Bibb County seeking custody of certain minor children. She alleged that she is their paternal grand-mother, that their parents were granted a divorce by which the father was awarded custody, that he subsequently died, that they...

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