Johnson v. Smith

Appellees, by their complaint filed in the court below on July 2, 1930, against appellants, sought, by a writ of habeas corpus, the possession and control of one Patricia Pearl Tripp, a minor child of the age of 18 months.

The pleadings in this case consisted of a complaint, plea in abatement, to which a demurrer for want of facts was sustained, a return, to which exceptions thereto were sustained. ' Each of these rulings of the court, together with the overruling of appellants’ motion for a new trial, is separately assigned as error.

The complaint, in substance, alleged that the child was a…