This is a habeas corpus proceeding involving the custody of a five-year-old female child. On January 28, 1946, this child was placed by the commissioner of welfare of the City of New York in the custody of the petitioner, Convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Brooklyn, which conducts the Angel Guardian Home. Thereafter on July 14, 1948, she was placed in the home of respondent as a boarding child under the terms of an application dated February...
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