Herbstman v. Shiftan

This is an appeal by certiorari on leave granted from a circuit court order denying a father’s petition for writ of habeas corpus to recover custody of his daughter, Hanna Herbstman, who, at the time of the filing of the petition in August, 1959, was 4 years old.

A hearing was held on the petition in the Jackson cóúrity circuit court. Testimony disclosed that Herbstman’s wife died at Hanna’s birth in Israel in, 1954. Herbstman and his wife were refugees ijr'om Nazi Europe to Israel. - After his wife’s death, Mr. Herbstman, having no one to look after Hanna, placed her in a children’s home in…