Ziezel v. Hutchinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

On the 15th of May, 1916, two days before her mother’s death, Virginia A. Hutchinson, the infant daughter of the petitioner, and the subject of this controversy, was born at Camden, in this state, in the humble but comfortable home of her maternal grandparents, the defendants in this proceeding.

The grandmother tells the simple story of the acquisition of the child at her birth: “The night she died I put my arm around Carl’s (the petitioner’s) neck, and I said, ‘Carl you have robbed me of Florence (the mother of the child), and now you will…