Bryant v. Dukehart

Plaintiff, a resident of Oakland, California, by hateas corpus proceedings, seeks to recover the custody of John Dukehart Bryant, his son, now of the age of nine years and four months. The child is now at Portland, Oregon, in the custody of the defendant, a sister of its deceased mother. Mrs. *362Bryant, the mother of the child, died on March 19, 1919. The parents, of the child were married at Portland, Oregon, in 1910, and immediately thereafter they removed to Oakland, California, where the child was born on June 11, 1913. Immediately following the birth of the child the parents separated and…