Kirby v. Fletcher

Plaintiff, aged about 40 years, is a successful and reputable physician living with his wife in decent surroundings in the city of New Orleans.

He brings this action of habeas corpus to obtain the custody and care of his minor daughter, Stella Willie Kirby, child of a íotmer marriage, aged about 12 years when these proceedings were commenced, and aged about 15 years now.

His present (second) wife has no children of her own, and is herein aiding her husband and desirous of having the child restored to its father and reared as a member of the family to which, by nature, it belongs.

The defendant,…