In re Rice

A habeas corpus Tjas issued in this case on behalf of a Pennsylvania guardian to obtain possession of the infant over whom a guardian had been appointed by the probate court of Jackson county before any appointment was made in Pennsylvania.

The parents of the child, having formerly lived in Philadelphia, determined to change their residence and left that city with their son to go to Kansas to reside. They were both killed and the child injured by a railroad collision at Jackson last October. The boy, who is but three years old, was cared for at that city until an aunt, Mary C. Rogers, his…