Legal Opinion

Com. ex rel. Waleisa v. Waleisa

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County

Decided July 1, 1874Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion delivered by

Walker, J.

This is a habeas corpus issued upon the petition of the relator, setting forth that his son, Irwin Nicholas Waleisa (a boy of five years old) is deprived of his liberty by his grandfather, the defendant, whom he prays may be produced before the court.

The respondent answers that the boy is the illegitimate child of his daughter Mary who died about the 23. March, 1874,. that the child is indelicate health, requiring great care and constant attention from his grandmother, with whom he has lived since his birth, and that the respondent, in April last,, was appointed…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Wright v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1806
  2. Moritz v. GarnhartSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
  3. Fernsler v. MoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
  4. Arthurs' AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854

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