Richards v. Collins
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from an order advised by Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet, directing the appellant to surrender a child twelve years and eight months old to its parents.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knapp, J.
Upon the respondents’ petition to the chancellor the writ of habeas corpus went to the appellant commanding him to have before the court Clara Belle Collins, a child of the petitioners, who, as the petition alleged, was in the appellant’s custody and restrained of her liberty. The appellant made return to the writ under oath, as required by the statute (Rev. p. 470 § 15), setting forth the caqses and circumstances under which the said Clara was abiding in his family.
Ko answer was filed to the return.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
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