Armstrong v. Stone

James Stone andSerlie his wife presented a petition to a judge of the Circuit court, alleging that a female infant child, the daughter of the female petitioner by *a former husband, was illegally retained in the possession and custody of the appellant, John J. P. Armstrong, the paternal grandfather of the child, and prayed that a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum might be awarded them. The petition was verified by affidavit, and the judge, by his order referring to the petition, awarded to the infant the writ, which issued in the usual form, and was made returnable before the Circuit…