Kirkland v. Canty

Alice Canty, a colored woman, sued out a writ of habeas corpus, in the city court of Baxley, to obtain possession of her six minor children. It appears from the record that she and a man named Kirkland lived together as man and wife in the State of South Carolina, where the children were born. They were never legally married. Several years ago they separated, Kirkland removing to this State and the woman remaining in South Carolina. He visited her and the children once a year for two or three years, and upon his last visit she relinquished the children to him, and he brought them to Georgia.…