Speer v. Davis

The appellee filed his petition on the 7th day of March, 1871, alleging that he was the father of Hettie A. Davis, and, as such, entitled to her custody; that she was of the age of seven years, and in the custody of the appellant, at the county of Franklin, in the State of Indiana, without right, and was unjustly and illegally restrained of her liberty, and unlawfully detained from the custody of petioner, against his will and without his consent; that the pretended cause of such restraint was, that seven years previously, when said Hettie was an infant, the petitioner gave the custody and…