State v. Kilvington

This is a habeas corpus proceeding to test the detention in the Tennessee Industrial School, at Nashville, Tennessee, of Lyndall Williams, a female about seven years of age at the time she was placed in said institution. The relator in the case is the mother of Lyndall Williams, and claims the right to recover the child and its custody by virtue of the parental relation to her. It appears that her father is dead. The defendant, Tennessee Industrial School, was originally founded by the benefaction of E. W. Cole, one. of the most public spirited and charitable men Tennessee has ever pro*229duced.…