State ex rel. Le Brook v. Wheeler
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lewis county, Rice, J., entered February 19, 1906, upon findings in favor of the defendants, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury, denying the application of a father for a writ of habeas corpus to recover the custody of a child.
1Opinion of the CourtChow, J.
In January, 1902, the relator, Stanley O. Le Brook, married one Florence E. Thornton. As issue of said marriage one daughter, Sherley May Le Brook, was born in December, 1902. In January, 1901, Stanley O. Le Brook discovered that his wife was sustaining criminal relations with one Peter St. Louis; whereupon he left her, and taking said child, placed her with relator’s mother, one Mattie Passig, at Everett, Washington. The relator and his child con-*185tinned to live with Mrs. Passig until July 10, 1904, when, leaving said child with his mother to he cared for, he went to Granite Palls to seek…
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