Commonwealth v. Strickland
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 88, Oct. T., 1904, by defendants, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., in habeas corpus proceedings in case of Commonwealth ex rel. J. T. Strickland v. Nettie M. Strickland and Sydney -T. Muffly. Petition for habeas corpus.
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Appeal, No. 88, Oct. T., 1904, by defendants, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., in habeas corpus proceedings in case of Commonwealth ex rel. J. T. Strickland v. Nettie M. Strickland and Sydney -T. Muffly. Petition for habeas corpus. On November 28, 1903, James T. Stricldand presented a petition, representing “that petitioner’s daughters, Jennette B. Stricldand, aged 13 years ; Dorothy M. Strickland, aged 9 years, are restrained of their liberty by Nettie M. Strickland and S. T. Muffly, in the city of Philadelphia, and within the jurisdiction of this court, and. that they are not detained for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal by the respondent from a final order made in a habeas corpus proceeding, awarding to the relator, subject to certain regulations to which we shall refer hereafter, the custody of two minor children of the relator and the respondent, Nettie M. Strickland.
The courts of Pennsylvania exercised a very broad discretion in such disputes from the earliest days of the commonwealth. In Commonwealth v. Addicks, 5 Binn. 520, Chief Justice Tilghman, speaking for the Supreme Court, before whom the writ of habeas corpus was returnable, said: “We have considered the…
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