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STATE EX REL. ACTON v. FLOWERS

No. 12918.

174 S.E.2d 742 (1970)

STATE ex rel. Carolyn J. Smith ACTON, etc. v. Edwin F. FLOWERS, Commissioner of Welfare, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. King, Ralph D. Keightley, Jr., Lewisburg, for relator.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., James G. Anderson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent Flowers.

John L. Detch, Lewisburg, for respondent Jennings.

CALHOUN, Judge.

This case involves a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court by Carolyn J. Smith Acton, (also known as Carolyn J. Acton Leogrande and as Carolyn J. Smith), the petitioner, against Edwin F. Flowers, State Commissioner of Welfare of West Virginia and also against Nelson Jennings and Joyce Jennings, husband and wife, as respondents.

The petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus to award to...

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