Whatley v. Bacon

How courts have described this case

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• if only relator is entitled to possession by virtue of court order, court must compel return of child to relator
• when there is prior valid order governing possession of child, writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as vehicle for redetermination of right to possession and any such order is invalid
• when there is prior valid order governing possession of child, writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as vehicle for redetermination of right to possession and any such order is invalid
• if only relator is entitled to possession by virtue of court order, court must compel return of child to relator
• “The proper procedural disposition of a divorce action when one of the parties dies is dismissal.”
• when there is prior valid order governing possession of child, writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as vehicle for redetermination of right to possession and any such order is invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).