In re Wikoli

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of a judge of the first circuit court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus previously-issued by him upon the petition of one Maka Wikoli. The respondent is one Ah Ping, and the proceeding involves the right to the custody of a boy six or seven years of age named Ah Fan (alias Ah Fon) of whom the petitioner is the maternal grandmother and the respondent a cousin.

The material facts shown by the record are as follows: On June 17, 1913, one C. Ah Chew, the father of the child in question, the mother having previously died,…