Bonnett ex rel. Newmeyer v. Bonnett
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Van Burén District Court. This is a proceeding in habeas corpus, tlie petition alleging that Festusina Bonnett is restrained of her liberty by Lewis and Amanda Bonnett. The court adjudged that the defendants do not illegally restrain Festusina Bonnett of her liberty, and that she be remanded to their custody. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Oh. J.
— The facts of the case as found by the court below are as follows: “The relator, Mary Newmeyer, is the mother of the plaintiff, Eestusina Bonnett, and the defendants, Lewis and Amanda Bonnett, are her paternal grandparents. The father of the plaintiff died in October, 1877, and she was born on the fourteenth day of April, 1878. Her mother resided with the defendants from the death- of her husband and until the plaintiff was about twenty months old. She did not then permanently change her residence, but for a few weeks was at her sister’s, then returned to her home; after a while…
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