Booth v. Pitts

B. T. Pitts instituted a habeas-eorpus proceeding against Mrs. Sallie Booth and Miss Kittie Slappey, to recover the custody and control of Pauline Pitts, a minor child some 13 years of age, who was the daughter of petitioner. The defendants filed their answer setting up that the child -was given to them when she was 13 months old, by her mother, and by the plaintiff, who is the father. The defendants further alleged that the father had not contributed anything towards the support of the child for twelve years; that they had reared the child and sent her to school; and that the father had…