SCHENCK v. KNIGHT

No. 73-185.

505 S.W.2d 192 (1974)

Donna Marie SCHENCK, a minor, et al. Appellants, v. Janet KNIGHT, Director of Family Services, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis T. Donovan, Conway, for appellants.

Ivan H. Smith and Louis Watts, Little Rock, for appellee.


JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal by Donna Marie Schenck, the minor mother of Patrick Daniel Schenck, and Donna's mother, Mary Ann Brown, as next friend of Donna Marie and grandmother of the infant child, Patrick Daniel Schenck, from a decree of the Garland County Chancery Court denying their petition for habeas corpus in connection with the custody of the infant child, Patrick Daniel Schenck.

The rather sordid background is somewhat immaterial to the question...

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