Bennett v. Bennett
District Court, D. Oregon
At law. On October 14, 1867, Susan Bennett exhibited her petition to the judge of the district court, praying for the allowance of a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Sanford J. Bennett, to obtain the custody of her infant child, Anna Bennett, alleged to be unlawfully detained from the petitioner by said Sanford J. Bennett.
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At law. On October 14, 1867, Susan Bennett exhibited her petition to the judge of the district court, praying for the allowance of a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Sanford J. Bennett, to obtain the custody of her infant child, Anna Bennett, alleged to be unlawfully detained from the petitioner by said Sanford J. Bennett. On the same day the writ was allowed and issued On October 22, the respondent and petitioner appeared before the judge, and the respondent then moved that the writ be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. After argument, by consent of parties, the decision of the motion was…
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
Prom the proofs submitted by the parties, and the admissions in the pleadings, I have found certain conclusions of fact which it will be proper to state before considering the questions of law that arise thereon. They are these:
I. That in the month of August, 1862, at Oakland, in the state of California, the respondent and petitioner were lawfully married to one another, and that they continued to live together, in said state, as man and-wife, until June 30, 1866, when the petitioner commenced a suit against the respondent in the district court of the seventh judicial…
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