Cline v. Gibson

Gibson filed his petition, alleging that Mary F. Gibson, an infant aged six years, was in the custody of, and unlawfully detained by, George and Hannah J. Cline; that he is entitled to the custody of said Mary, because, at the May term of Owen Circuit Court, said court dissolved the bonds of matrimony between said William and said Hannah, and awarded the custody and guardianship of said Mary to him during her minority, etc.

The question in controversy turned, as the pleadings were framed, upon the question whether the Owen Circuit Court had decreed, as the said Gibson alleged in his petition,…