Greene v. Walker

The plaintiff is the father of a daughter who was 9 years old in January. The child has lived with her grandmother and her Aunt Ernestine Walker since she was 13 days old. The grandmother is dead. The father sued out a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the custody of the child. He seeks by certiorari to review the action of the circuit judge in denying him the custody of his daughter.

Section 13955, 3 Comp. Laws 1915, reads:

“The father of the minor, and in case of his decease, the mother, being respectively competent to transact their own business, and otherwise suitable, shall be entitled to…