Tillman v. Walters
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
' TIIOMAS, J.
This is a petition for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review its action in dismissing an appeal from an order in habeas corpus before the circuit judge for the custody of infants. 108 So. 61.
A preliminary observation may be made, as to’ such petition, proceedings or pleadings therein, that mere legal niceties are not favored. Murphree v. Hanson, 72 So. 437, 197 Ala. 246, 259; State v. Thurman, 88 So. 61,17 Ala. App. 656; Frank v. Mangum, Sheriff, 35 S. Ct. 582, 237 U. S. 348, 59 L. Ed. 969. It is immaterial, in any matter affecting the custody of a child, whether it be…
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