Collard v. McCormick

A father instituted habeas corpus proceedings before the judge of the city court of Dawson in Terrell County, Georgia, against a mother, for custody of their minor child, a girl eight }rears of age. The petition as amended alleged that in a decree of divorce between the father and mother, rendered in a court of Indiana in a suit for divorce instituted by the mother against the father, the custody of the child was awarded to the mother subject to specified restrictions; that subsequently there were several modifications of the decree, and shortly before institution of the habeas corpus…