Trimble v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg rendered May 4, 1898, in a proceeding for a contempt of court.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
One Susie Eox filed her petition in the Corporation Court for the city of Lynchburg, alleging that she is the mother of *819a female child five years of age, named Lillian May Fox; that she had theretofore placed this child with a certain Ella Trimble to keep and care for during the petitioner’s expected absence from the city of Lynchburg, with the understanding that the child would be delivered to her on her i’eturn. Ella Trimble refused, upon the mother’s demand, to restore the child to her custody, and thereupon this petition was filed praying for a…
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