Norval v. Zinsmaster

Irvine, C.

Annie J. Norval sued ont a writ of habeas corpus against Jacob Zinsmaster, alleging the unlawful restraint by him of the applicant’s two minor children. The district court, after a trial, awarded the custody of the children to the respondent, their paternal grandfather. From this order the applicant prosecutes error. The assignments of error reduce themselves to a question of the sufficiency of the evidence.

There is little real controversy as to the facts. The children are two girls, aged respectively eight and five, the offspring of a marriage between the applicant and George…