In Re Pfahler

The petitioner, as the father of Alice Rose Elizabeth Pfahler, an infant of the age of five years, seeks by means of a habeascorpus to compel Sarah Bennett, the child's maternal grandmother, who has the custody of said child, to restore her to her father. The petitioner was married July 31st, 1921, to Mabel Alice Lockman, and lived with his wife in Bayonne, New Jersey. Two children were born of the marriage. The petitioner's wife died June 5th, 1923. For a time prior to his wife's death, and because of her illness, the petitioner's two children were entrusted to the care of the respondent,…