EX PARTE PETERSON

No. B-1590.

444 S.W.2d 286 (1969)

Ex parte Catherine E. McEnroe PETERSON et al., Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLaughlin, Clark, Fisher, Gorin & McDonald, Charles M. McDonald, Waco, for relators.

Coker & Coker, Ernest Coker, Jr., Conroe, for respondent.


GREENHILL, Justice.

This original habeas corpus proceeding is an outgrowth not only of an unfortunate battle between contesting parents and relatives for the custody of a child but a dispute as to which of two district courts had or have jurisdiction to determine such custody. While one of the district courts was attempting to enforce its custody order by commanding the relators to produce the child before it, a Court of Civil Appeals temporarily prohibited that district...

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