People ex rel. Burr v. Fahey

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

John Fahey and Mary Fahey have sued out this writ of error to reverse the order and judgment of the superior court of Cook county, entered in a habeas corpus proceeding on August 10, 1922, whereby the custody of a child, Robert Burr, was awarded to his father, Roy Burr, the relator. It is the settled law of this State that in a habeas corpus proceeding for the custody of a child a writ of error will lie to review the judgment of the court. (Sullivan v. People, 224 Ill. 468, 473.) No printed brief and argument has been filed in…