Taylor v. Jeter
Supreme Court of Georgia
Habeas corpus. Decided by the Hon. E. H. 'W’orrill, at Chambers, on the 3d of July, 1861. The question in this case springs out of the following state of facts, to-wit: Samuel Jeter, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, intermarried with Sarah Taylor, a girl seventeen or eighteen years of age, in the spring of 1853. They lived together until the latter part of the year 1858, when a controversy arose between them in relation to the signing of a deed by the wife with…
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Habeas corpus. Decided by the Hon. E. H. 'W’orrill, at Chambers, on the 3d of July, 1861. The question in this case springs out of the following state of facts, to-wit: Samuel Jeter, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, intermarried with Sarah Taylor, a girl seventeen or eighteen years of age, in the spring of 1853. They lived together until the latter part of the year 1858, when a controversy arose between them in relation to the signing of a deed by the wife with her husband, conveying a tract of land to a son of tbe husband by a former wife. The wife refusing to sign the deed, was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Jenkins, J.,‘ delivering the opinion.
This is a contest between the father and a maternal uncle, of a child under fourteen years of age, (the mother being dead,) for the custody of the child. The case came before the Court on a return to a writ of habeas corpus, sued out in Marion county by the father against the uncle. The answer admits the possession, in respondent of the child, and asserts his right to such possession.
The Court below awarded the possession of the child to the *198father, (plaintiff in habeas corpus,) and the respondent excepted.
The record discloses the facts, that…
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