State Ex Rel. Hamilton v. Trammell

This cause is before us on return to rule nisi in prohibition proceedings.

It appeárs that in habéas corpus proceedings the circuit court ordered the respondent there to produce the body of an infant Eleanor Jean Hamilton before the court. The record shows that the infant was not in the custody of respondent and was not within the jurisdiction of State Courts of Florida and has not been within such jurisdiction since the year 1937; that since 1937 the said infant has been in the State of Michigan in the custody of Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Dewey and beyond the control of the respondent.

Regardless of…