State ex rel. Scott v. Lowell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by relator from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Brooks, J., discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding Sadie Scott, the wife of relator, to the care, custody, sand control of respondent Fred L. Lowell, her father. On a trial de novo in the supreme court, judgment for relator.
1Opinion of the Court
START, C. J.1
On October 18, 1899, the relator, Alexander W. Scott, a man 32 years of age, and Sadie Lowell, a girl then only 13 years and 11 months old, the daughter of the respondent Fred L. Lowell, were married, without the consent of her parents, in due form, by an ordained minister of the gospel, upon the presentation of a license *167in due form, issued by the clerk of the proper county. Cohabitation as husband and wife followed the marriage, but on the next day thereafter the father went to the house of the husband, and forcibly took his daughter away, against her will and wishes, and…
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