Jones v. Bowman
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Johnson County, Hoh. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. Habeas corpus for the custody of Ida May Bowman, a minor orphan child. From a judgment in favor of the petitioner, Margaret H. Bowman, the respondents, John A. Jones and Ella Jones, prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to the District Court, Johnson County, Hoh. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. Habeas corpus for the custody of Ida May Bowman, a minor orphan child. From a judgment in favor of the petitioner, Margaret H. Bowman, the respondents, John A. Jones and Ella Jones, prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. (Original brief.) In the admission of most of the testimony objected to by the plaintiffs in error there was a disregard of all rule which was not authorized even under the most liberal statement of the rule in habeas corpus cases, much of it being hearsay and entirely foreign…
1Opinion of the Court
Knight, Justicr.
The defendant in error, Margaret Bowman, plaintiff below, under the habeas corpus act by petition alleged that Ida May Bowman, at that time, May, 1900, of the age of five years, was unlawfully restrained of her liberty by J. A. Jones and Ella Jones, plaintiffs in error here, at their residence in the town of Buffalo, in Johnson County, Wyoming, without legal justification, they having caused said Ida May Bowman *86to be forcibly abducted and spirited away from said petitioner, Margaret Bowman, in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, on or about February 15th, 1900, said petitioner…
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