Edgell v. Francis

Plaintiff sued defendant, his father-in-law, for depriving him of the company of his wife and child, detaining them, by persuasion and other means, from returning to him.

The plantiff and his wife were married in March, 1883, and about 10 months after their marriage a child was born to them, while they were keeping house together in the township of Roxand, Eaton county. Defendant was living in the-vicinity, and on March 7, 1884, he and his wife took plaintiff’s wife and child home with them, ostensibly on a visit, and she never came back. The claim of the plaintiff was that defendant got and…