State ex rel. Giroux v. Giroux
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Flathead County. Charles W. Pomeroy, Judge. Application by the state, on the relation of Joseph L. Giroux, for a writ of habeas corpus against Rebecca Giroux. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. This appeal is the result of a habeas corpus proceeding in the district court of Flathead county for the custody of a minor child withheld by its mother from the father.
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Appeal from District Court, Flathead County. Charles W. Pomeroy, Judge. Application by the state, on the relation of Joseph L. Giroux, for a writ of habeas corpus against Rebecca Giroux. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. This appeal is the result of a habeas corpus proceeding in the district court of Flathead county for the custody of a minor child withheld by its mother from the father. The facts are substantially as follows : Joseph L. Giroux and the respondent, Rebecca Giroux, were married in Montana in 1881, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
The record in this proceeding is unnecessarily voluminous, and bristles with exceptions to the admission or refusal to admit testimony. Many of these exceptions, also, are of so frivolous a nature that they have been ignored, not only in the arguments and briefs of counsel, but in the specification of errors itself. ■ A proceeding in habeas corpus is summary in its character,, and we feel it our duty to vigorously condemn any unnecessary impeding of this, its essential function, by technical and hypercritical criticism in reference to the admission of any evidence tending to enlighten the…
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