Allison v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from, District Court, Cleveland County; C, F. Irwin, Trial Judge. Petition by Anna Bryan for a writ of habeas corpus, to recover the custody of Xenner Whittaker Allison, Jr., a minor, against Xenner Whittaker Allison, Sr., and another. From a judgment of the district court awarding the minor to petitioner, on appeal from a probate court decree denying such relief, defendants bring error.
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Error from, District Court, Cleveland County; C, F. Irwin, Trial Judge. Petition by Anna Bryan for a writ of habeas corpus, to recover the custody of Xenner Whittaker Allison, Jr., a minor, against Xenner Whittaker Allison, Sr., and another. From a judgment of the district court awarding the minor to petitioner, on appeal from a probate court decree denying such relief, defendants bring error. Anna Bryan, defendant in error, on the 14th day of February, 1906, filed in the office of the probate court of Cleveland county her petition and application for a writ of habeas corpus, for the purpose…
1Opinion of the Court
Dunn, ¿T.
(after stating the facts as above). . Section 36, art. 9, c. 59 (section 3795) Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. 1903, provides :
“The father of an illegitimate child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife if he is married, into- his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such; and such child is thereupon deemed for all purposes legitimate from the time of its birth. The foregoing provisions of this article do 'not apply to such an adoption.”
On the trial of this cause in the district court…
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