CLAYTON v. NEWTON

No. 17650.

524 S.W.2d 368 (1975)

Mary CLAYTON, Appellant, v. Douglas McArthur NEWTON, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

May 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fillmore, Lambert, Farabee & Purtle and Roger Lee, Wichita Falls, for appellant.

William V. Browning, Wichita Falls, for appellee.


OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

Douglas Newton filed this habeas corpus action in a Wichita County District Court on December 19, 1974, against Mary Clayton, the maternal grandmother of his three children. He sought therein to recover the custody of said children, namely, Tammy Kay Newton, Sandra Lynn Newton, and Douglas McArthur Newton, Jr., from the grandmother. On January 31, 1975, the trial court rendered judgment in the case and awarded the custody of the...

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