Miller v. Miller
Supreme Court of Iowa
!Appeal from Polk District Court. — TIon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. T-Tatvtcas corpus proceedings instituted in the name of Elizabeth Miller, a minor, by James Miller and 3L E. Miller, as her next friends and parents by adoption, to determine the right to the custody of said minor. The trial court awarded the custody to said James and K. E. Miller, and the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
Many of the facts upon which a solution of this controversy must depend are not in dispute. Elizabeth Miller, named as plaintiff, is the daughter, by birth, of James and Mary Murphy, and she was born .in Scotland, December 30, 1899. A few days after her birth, her mother died. The father had four other children, and plaintiff was given into the custody of the defendants in this proceeding, Thomas Miller and Marion, his wife — the former a brother of Mary Murphy — who then resided in Scotland. A short time thereafter, Thomas Miller and his wife came to this country, bringing the child with…
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