State ex rel. Ahrens v. Rassieur

— At the April term, 1911, of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, one Lee H. Mallalieu filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for the possession of his daughter Jessalee, then about two years old and in the custody of Henry Ahrens, Sr., her grandfather, and Alvina Ahrens, her grandmother, her mother being dead. The prayer or demand for relief in the petition is:

“Wherefore, your petitioner prays that a writ of habeas corpus may be issued to bring the said Jessalee Mallalieu before the _court that she may be released from the restraint and keeping of the said Henry Ahrens, Sr.,…