Wyatt v. Gleason
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg on a writ of habeas corpus. Judgment for the petitioner. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
This proceeding was instituted by the defendant in error to recover of the plaintiffs in error an infant child, and resulted in the order appealed from in favor of the right of the defendant in error to the custody of the person of such infant.
It appears from the record that R. T. Gleason, the defendant in error, was married in July, 1907, and that in October, 1911, his first and only child, a girl named Nellie, was born to him. Two weeks after its birth the mother of this infant died. She had been very ill from the beginning of her confinement—so ill that her baby was put in the care of a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Coffee v. BlackSupreme Court of Virginia · 1866
- Lindsay v. McCormickSupreme Court of Virginia · 1886
- Taylor v. TaylorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1905
- Meyer v. MeyerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
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