State Ex Rel. Burleigh v. Savoie

On Rehearing.

ST. PAUL, .T.

The case is fully stated in the original opinion. Briefly restated, it is a proceeding by habeas corpus in which a widowed father seeks to regain the custody of his five year old daughter from her grandparents, the father and mother of relator’s deceased wife.

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Up to the time of the wife’s death the young couple had lived at the home of the wife’s parents, and there is not even a suggestion that relator was not a good husband and father. His occupation was that of farmer, and he earned his own livelihood, and that of his wife and child, as a tenant farmer on his own…