Hunt v. Hunt

Lumpkin, Justice.

This was a habeas corpus case, disposed of by the ordinary of Heard county, whose judgment was taken by ..certiorari to the superior court.

Ring Hunt, in his petition for the writ of habeas cor*258pus, alleged, in substance, that he was the father of the two children in controversy; that Jane Hunt illegally detained them under the pretence that the petitioner had committed them to her custody; that she was a woman of bad character, moving about from place to place, not a fit person to have the care and control of children, and that she had no means of supporting them except by her…