This case involves an impassioned contest over the custody of a child whose mother, never married, died in an automobile accident when the little boy was two years old. The trial court determined that Donald Ray Deville, who had instituted these proceedings by applying for a writ of habeas corpus, was the natural father of the child, as he alleged, but that he was unfit to care for his son and had forfeited...
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