Crawford v. Manning

Manning brought'habeas corpus to obtain possession of his minor daughter, who was being detained by her maternal grandparents under an alleged parol gift from the father. The hearing was had before Hon. E. W. Jordan, judge of the city court" of Sandersville, presiding in the city court of Wrightsville, and an order was passed awarding the custody of the child to the defendants, but providing that she should be required to visit her father at stated intervals upon application by him, and the defendants were directed to deliver the child to her father upon such application, “without some good…