State Ex Rel. Palmer v. Postlethwaite

Litz, Judge:

The relator, Joseph Palmer, seeks by writ of habeas corpus to obtain from respondent, Margaret Postlethwaite, the custody of his eleven year old son, Joseph Carl Palmer, the offspring of a marriage between relator and Dochia Postleth-waite who is a daughter of respondent.

By decree of October 19, 1922, the circuit court of Wetzel county granted to relator an absolute divorce from the mother, Dochia Postlethwaite Palmer, and the custody, care and control of the infant.' It seems that the parents separated in 1921, before the institution of the suit for divorce, when the child was…