Madson v. Wyoming Humane Society & State Board of Child & Animal Protection
Wyoming Supreme Court
ORIGINAL proceedings by petition, for habeas corpus by Eddie Madson, Richard Madson and Violet Madson, minors, by May Madson, their next friend, against the Wyoming Humane Society and State Board of Child and Animal Protection. The District Court did not have jurisdiction to make an order giving a stranger custody of said minors. The proper procedure is set forth by Sections 3108-3111 and 3117-3119, Comp. Stats. 1910. No notice was given the parents.
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ORIGINAL proceedings by petition, for habeas corpus by Eddie Madson, Richard Madson and Violet Madson, minors, by May Madson, their next friend, against the Wyoming Humane Society and State Board of Child and Animal Protection. The District Court did not have jurisdiction to make an order giving a stranger custody of said minors. The proper procedure is set forth by Sections 3108-3111 and 3117-3119, Comp. Stats. 1910. No notice was given the parents. Parents were entitled to their day in court as to the propriety of awarding custody to a third person. Where divorce is denied, the court is…
1Opinion of the Court
Blydenbuegh, Justice.
This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this court by May Madson as the next friend of the minors Eddie Madson, Richard Madson and Violet Madson. The writ was issued and the office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the defendant, The Wyoming Humane Society and State Board of Child and Animal Protection, filed an answer and plead the order of the court in a divorce proceeding between the parents of these minors awarding their custody to the ■defendant, The Wyoming Humane Society and State Board of Child and Animal Protection, and also attached to said answer…
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- Barrere v. BarrereNew York Court of Chancery · 1819
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