People ex rel. DeLaney v. Mount St. Joseph's Academy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by the defendant, Mount St. Joseph’s Academy of Buffalo, N. Y., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Chautauqua Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chautauqua on the 14th day of March, 19-21, remanding to the joint custody of the relator and her husband their three children.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
Paul DeLaney and Elizabeth K. DeLaney are husband and wife living together. They are the parents of five children, including triplet girls about nine years of age. Recently they have fallen into unhappy differences concerning the education and religious training of their children. Evidently, no well-sustained effort on either side was made in a spirit of accommodation ' to compose amicably their disagreements, but the quarrel proceeded until it reached the courts.
During the temporary absence from home of the wife, the husband, without her consent, placed these small children in a…
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