McEachern v. . McEachern

J. This was a proceeding under C. S., 2241, to determine the custody of the two small children of petitioner and respondent.

At the instance of petitioner, John S. McEachern, a writ of habeascorpus was issued out of New Hanover Superior Court by Cranmer, J., on 24 September, 1935, commanding the respondent, Phyllis Albright McEachern, living in Raleigh, North Carolina, to produce the said children before him in Southport, North Carolina, on 28 September, 1935.

It was admitted that petitioner and respondent were married in 1928, and that at the time of the issuance of the writ herein they were…