Cornell v. Hartley

By writ of habeas corpus referred to this court by the Supreme Court, the petitioner seeks the custody of his daughter Beth Lynne, age 7, who is now residing with her mother, the respondent herein.

Beth Lynne is an illegitimate child born to the parties as the result of an illicit relationship which began approximately two years before the child’s birth on September 11, 1960 and continued with but two interruptions until the respondent left the petitioner’s home and place of business sometime in January of 1967. At first the parties lived together in an apartment in the City of Kingston, but…