CAMPBELL v. PREJEAN

No. 7936.

392 So.2d 747 (1980)

Caroline Virginia CAMPBELL et al., Plaintiffs & Appellees, v. Edward PREJEAN and Abigail Prejean, Defendants & Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrus & Preis, Gary McGoffin, Lafayette, for defendants & appellants.

Marcia Finkelstein, Lafayette, for plaintiffs & appellees.

Before CULPEPPER, DOMENGEAUX and SWIFT, JJ.


CULPEPPER, Judge.

Caroline Virginia Campbell, the natural mother of Ricky Paul Campbell, originally filed this habeas corpus action to regain custody of her child from defendants, to whom she had given the child for adoption. The mother was later joined in her suit by her sister, Elizabeth Tatem, wife of Henry Tatem, who sought custody in the alternative should legal custody not be awarded to the natural mother. The district...

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