Fladung v. Sanford

Elizabeth Edwards Fladnng, hereinafter called petitioner, filed her application for a writ of habeas corpus in the superior court of Pima county, alleging that she was the mother of a certain infant child named Russell Samuel Edwards, who was unlawfully detained by Russell V. Sanford, hereinafter called respondent, and asking that the child be delivered to her. The writ was issued and the matter came on for hearing before the superior court. Therein the following undisputed facts developed:

The child involved in the controversy was born out of wedlock, petitioner being his mother and Russell…