In Re Walker
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PROCEEDING for Contempt, heard at Chambers, Spring Term, 1879, of Pasquotank Superior Court, before Avery, J, Upon the hearing the court adjudged that Walker was guilty and ordered him to be imprisoned, from which judgment he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
On the petition~of Quentin F. Simpson for a writ of habeas corpus to get his daughter, Eliza Simpson, a writ was issued directed to Emily Corbet and Wilson Walker, commanding them to produce the body of the child, with the cause of her caption and detention, before the judge of the superior court on the first day of April, 1879, at chambers in the town of Edenton, which writ was returned executed on Walker and not found as to Corbet. At the return day Walker appeared before His Honor without the child, and on that day another writ was directed to issue to the same persons returnable at…
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