Maples v. Maples
Mississippi Supreme Court
1 -Appeal from the chancery court of DeSoto county. Hon. J. F. SimmoNs, Chancellor. The appellant assigns as error: 1. The court erred in overruling appellant’s demurrer. 2. The court erred in decreeing that the boy, Boss, should be placed in the hands of appellee or her agent. 3. The court erred in taxing appellant with costs.
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1 -Appeal from the chancery court of DeSoto county. Hon. J. F. SimmoNs, Chancellor. The appellant assigns as error: 1. The court erred in overruling appellant’s demurrer. 2. The court erred in decreeing that the boy, Boss, should be placed in the hands of appellee or her agent. 3. The court erred in taxing appellant with costs. Yiolet Maples, a citizen of Limestone county, State of Alabama, filed her petition in the chancery- court of DeSoto county, alleging that she is the mother of Boss Maples, aged about fifteen years. That said boy, Boss, left her home, and she believes he was induced to…
1Opinion of the CourtTaRbell, J.
Habeas corpus before the chancery court of JDeSoto county by Yiolet Maples, for the possession of her minor son, Boss Maples. The petition represents that Yiolet is a resident of the State of Alabama, and that she is the mother of Boss, who, at the date of the petition, was aged about' fifteen years; that in December, 1872, Boss left her home and custody, as she believes, induced by Ambrick Maples, in whose custody, in DeSoto county, he now is; that Arm-brick refuses to give up the possession of said Boss to petitioner ; that she believes that, unless Boss is ordered into custody, he will be…
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