Robertson v. Bass
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Madison County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Cockrell, J.:
In March, 1906, Mrs. Robertson in her own name instituted habeas corpus proceedings to secure possession of her two minor children, aged respectively seven and five years, from Columbus Bass, alleging that he retained them unlawfullly and wrongfully. Mr. Bass made return to the writ that he held the children under a written agreement executed in the State of Georgia, the then residence of the parties, whereby the custody and control of the children passed to him until the boy *422arrived at the age of twenty-one and the girl became-eighteen. Issue was joined upon this return and…
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