Brown v. Brown

This is a case on habeas corpus concerning the custody of an infant child of the above-named parties (petitioner and defendant), who are husband and wife. The writ was served on the defendant, who appeared and produced the child on the return day. Thereafter its custody was awarded to third persons, who were relatives, and who had been made parties to the suit. Prior to that, defendant apparently became a fugitive from justice, and afterwards had the child removed from this state to his place of abode on Staten Island, New York, where he was served with a copy of the order to show cause in…