Hammond v. Hammond

Simmons, Justice.

The case came to this court upon exceptions to the refusal by the judge of the superior ' court of a writ of certiorari from the judgment of the ordinary. From the petition for certiorari it appears that the petitioner is the mother of a minor child, the custody of which she held under the decree of a court of Alabama, and that by the judgment of the ordinary here complained of, the child was taken from her and his custody awarded to the father, her former husband, upon his application for habeas corpus, based upon the grounds that the child was illegally detained by the…