Barclay v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Petition for habeas corpus. Error to the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
On May 26, 1905, Charlotte E. Bleakley filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Bock Island county, stating that she is a citizen of Lawrence, Kansas; that Edith Bleakley, her daughter, aged fifteen months, is restrained of her liberty by James Gr. Barclay and Stella Barclay, of Moline, in Bock Island county, by virtue of so-called adoption papers which are illegal and void for lack of compliance with the law concerning the adoption of minor children; that said adoption papers were obtained by fraud and misrepresentation; and that…
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- Bennett v. Union Central Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Snell v. Trustees of the Society of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Van Cott v. SpragueAppellate Court of Illinois · 1880
- Burke v. Chicago & Northwestern R. R. Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1903
- Bleakley v. SmartSupreme Court of Kansas · 1906
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- People ex rel. Kuhn v. WeeksAppellate Court of Illinois · 1923