Joab v. Sheets

Niblack, J. —

This was a proceeding upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which was filed in the court below on the 4th day of September, 1883.

The petition, which was supported'by the oath of the petitioner, stated that at the March term, 1883, of the superior court of Vigo county, she, under the name of Alice H. Joab, applied for a divorce from her husband Michael M. Joab, and that, on the sixty-second judicial day of said term, that is to say, on the 15th day of May, 1883, a divorce was decreed to her, and the bonds of matrimony theretofore existing between her and the said Michael M.…