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Show CONTEST OVER BABY IS AGAIN IN COURT State Supreme Tribunal la Asked fcy Harkers to Grant a Behearing In Long-fought Case. David and Lwv Barker, ivbo lost custody o a baby adopted bv them under a recent ruling ot the state supreme su-preme court, yesterday applied to the court for a rehearing of their appeal. The Harker's adopted a child born to Gladys Harrison out of wedlock. . After the adoption the mother, having hav-ing married J. B. Harrison, the father, asKed the Harkers to give back her baby. They refused and a long legal battle ensued. The real parents won in the district court on habeas corpus proceedings and the (Harkers appealed to the supreme court without success. In its opinion giving the child to ts real parents the supreme court re-narked re-narked that it would be governed by ao legal rights, but would act onlv ior the welfare of the baby. The Harkers, in their petition for -ehearing, aver that the high court did -lot do this, but on the contrary, ruled solely on the naked legal rights of the Harrison's, without regard to the best terests of the child. |