Legal Opinion

Parrish v. Parrish

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided June 11, 1914PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Nansemond county on a petition for writ of habeas corpus. To a judgment awarding the custody of an infant upon certain terms and conditions, the petitioner assigns error.

1Opinion of the Court

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

James S. Parrish, a citizen of Cook county, Illinois, filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Nansemond county in which he shows that in December, 1903, he married Fannie S. Crumpler, of Suffolk, Virginia, and thereafter resided with her in the city of Chicago; that a son, James Shepherd Parrish, Jr., was born of this marriage on March 18, 1906, and was the only child of the marriage; that on March 30, 1910, petitioner filed his bill in the Superior Court of Cook county, in the State of Illinois, asking an absolute divorce, and by the decree of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Stringfellow v. SomervilleSupreme Court of Virginia · 1898
  2. Coffee v. BlackSupreme Court of Virginia · 1866
  3. Merritt v. SwimleySupreme Court of Virginia · 1886

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Mullen v. MullenSupreme Court of Virginia · 1948
  2. Pugh v. PughWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1949
  3. Buchanan v. BuchananSupreme Court of Virginia · 1938
  4. Pruitt v. ButterfieldSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
  5. Fleshood v. FleshoodCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1925

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