STATE EX REL. COPELL v. MARUSAK

No. 2216.

205 So.2d 477 (1967)

STATE of Louisiana, ex rel. Mary Lee COPELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louis MARUSAK and Verna Lopez Marusak, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin, by Guyton H. Watkins, New Iberia, for defendants-appellants.

Gerard H. Wattigny, New Iberia, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, SAVOY, and LEAR, JJ.


FRUGÉ, Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding whereby the relatrix, Mary Lee Copell, is seeking the custody of her son, Robert Joseph Sullivan, who was heretofore in the custody of the defendants-appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Marusak. On the merits, the trial court ordered the return of the child to the plaintiff-appellee from which judgment and order the defendants have effected this devolutive appeal.

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