In re Stittgen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Application for a writ of habeas corpus. Proceeding by original writ of habeas corpus, issued from, this court upon a petition of FrederiT&a Stittgen, the mother of a nine-year old girl, Lillie, asserting her detention by Mrs. Marry Ernst, and seeking her enlargement and delivery to the petitioner.
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Application for a writ of habeas corpus. Proceeding by original writ of habeas corpus, issued from, this court upon a petition of FrederiT&a Stittgen, the mother of a nine-year old girl, Lillie, asserting her detention by Mrs. Marry Ernst, and seeking her enlargement and delivery to the petitioner. Erom the return it appeared that at the suit of Frederiha Stittgen a divorce was decreed by the circuit court for Milwaukee county on December 3, 1898, which, among other provisions, awarded to the mother (this petitioner) the custody of certain of the children, including the daughter Lillie; that…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 20, 1901:
Dodge, J.
The only question which can be reviewed upon the writ of habeas corpus is the jurisdiction of the circuit court making the order for the guardianship and custody of this minor. In re Meggett, 105 Wis. 291. In this limitation of the question, the word “ jurisdiction ” must be understood in its fullest and most comprehensive sense. If the circuit court had jurisdiction of the parties and authority over the subject matter, that must be the end of the inquiry; for in this respect that court sits in no sense as a mere magistrate or statutory…
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