Hurley v. Hurley

Robinson, Judge:

The writ of error herein lies to a judgment in habeas corpus proceedings, giving to Peter Hurley the custody of his infant son. It will serve no purpose to detail the fad» — sentimental and romantic though they be — out of which the proceedings arose. The story is an old one, of a marriage, a child, a separation, and a determined effort on the part of each parent to deprive the other of the custody of the offspring.

The writ issued against Mary Ellen Hurley, the mother of the child., and E. M. Ashcraft, its step great grandfather, who had been appointed its guardian, though the…