PAYNE v. JONES

No. 5-4195.

415 S.W.2d 57 (1967)

242 Ark. 686

Kale PAYNE, Appellant, v. E. Leroy JONES et ux., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spencer & Spencer and Don Gillaspie, El Dorado, for appellant.

J. S. Thomas and Bernard Whetstone, El Dorado, for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding by which the appellant, Kale Payne, seeks to obtain custody of his son, Dean Thomas Payne, who was two years and two days old when Kale's petition was filed on November 24, 1965. The original defendants were the Reverend and Mrs. E. Leroy Jones, appellees, to whom the child's mother, Betty Jean Payne Ford, had attempted to give the child. Mrs. Ford intervened...

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