Brinster v. Compton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from order made by Hon. LutheR R. Smith, Judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit, on habeas corpus by a father for the custody of his children, who had been apprenticed by the judge of probate.
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Appeal from order made by Hon. LutheR R. Smith, Judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit, on habeas corpus by a father for the custody of his children, who had been apprenticed by the judge of probate. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presented by Friday Compton, the appellee, to the Hon. Luther R. ■Smith, alleging that the appellee was the father of Ben and John Compton, minors, whose respective ages were nineteen and fourteen; that they were legally restrained of their liberty by Hiram T. Brinster, the appellant, who held said minors under letters of apprenticeship which were issued…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Our statutes make large provision for apprenticing pauper minors, who have no parents, or whose parents are unable to support them. See Code of 1876, commencing with section 1734. That section authorizes the judge of probate to “ bind out as apprentices the children of any person unable to provide for their support, until the age of twenty one years, if a male, and eighteen years, if a female.” Section 1736 provides that for good cause shown, the judge of probate may at any time revoke any letters of apprenticeship, and bind out the apprentice to another. And a parent, having a minor child,…
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