MITCHELL v. WARD

28441.

231 Ga. 671 (1974)

203 S.E.2d 484

MITCHELL v. WARD.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vaughn & Barksdale, Sidney L. Nation, for appellant.

James B. Pilcher, for appellee.


GUNTER, Justice.

This habeas corpus appeal involves a contest between the mother and father of a child with respect to the child's custody.

The mother-appellee filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the trial court contending that the child was being illegally withheld from her possession and custody by the father-appellant. The child had been born out of wedlock, but the father had thereafter secured an order of court rendering the child legitimate...

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