State ex rel. Neider v. Reuff

Woods, Judge :

On the 8th day of February, 1886, Mary Neider presented her petition to one of the judges of the Circuit Court of Ohio county, alleging, that she is the mother of Agnes Neider, aged less than three years, whose father, her husband, died on the — day of-, 1885; that said child is unlawfully detained in said county from her care, control and custody, and that she is deprived of her lawful right by one *753George Reuff, — and prayed, that the writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum might be granted her, to flee her child from unlawful custody, commanding him to produce the body of the…