Garner v. Gordon

—Belle A. Gordon, the appellee, petitioned the judge of the Floyd Common Pleas Court, in vacation, for a writ of habeas corpus directed to Garner, the appellant, requiring him to bring before the judge, at chambers, Nellie A. Gordon, aged eleven years, and Mary E. Gordon, aged nine years, and show the cause of their detention.

The petition stated that the petitioner was lawfully married to Edwin Gordon, and that she had two children by him, who are now living, to wit, Nellie A. Gordon, aged eleven years, and Mary E. Gordon, aged nine years; that on the 8th day of August, 1863, her said husband…