People ex rel. Swift v. Nelson

On February 4, 1924, plaintiff in error, Harvey C. Swift, filed his sworn petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court of Winnebago county against defendant in error, Gust Nelson, who was the superintendent of the Children’s Home of the Hlinois Conference of the Swedish Evangelical Covenant Church of America, located at Princeton, Illinois. The petition alleged that Chester Adelbert Swift was the son of plaintiff in error and was about eight years old; that he was also known by the name of Marshall Swift; that the mother of the child was dead; that the mother in her lifetime had…