McKenzie v. State ex rel. Dickinson

— Margaret A. Dickinson filed her petition in *548the court below, representing that she was the mother of a female child named Corintha Brandon, born to her and one Jacob Brandon her former husband, on the 20th day of September, 1870; that on the 15th day of May, 1873, she, the petitioner, was, by the decree of the DeKalb Circuit Court, divorced from the said Jacob Brandon, and that, by the express terms of such decree, the care and custody of the said Corintha were awarded to her; that sometime during the year 1873, she left the said Corintha in the custody of Stephen E. McKenzie, the appellant…