Bryan v. Lyon

By a proceeding of habeas corpus, appellant seeks to recover the custody of his two children; one of whom, a little boy ten years old, is in the custody of appellee Lyon, and the other, a little girl eight years old, is in the custody of appellee Ferguson. He filed a separate complaint against each of the appellees. The cases were put at issue, and, by the agreement of the parties, tried together and come here, practically, as one case. He alleged in his complaint, that on the 2d day of April, 1874, he and Sallie B. Lyon, who is now dead, were married ; that the two children were born of that…