Matter of Meyer
New York Court of Appeals
Motion to dismiss an appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 8,1913, reversing an order of Special Term in a proceeding to obtain the custody of an infant. Further facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
This is a proceeding to obtain the custody of Augusta Mildred Meyer, an infant born June' 14, 1909. A few months after her birth her parents ceased living together. From about that time until April 9, 1911, when her mother died, she and her mother lived with her maternal grandfather, the respondent Edward Robitzek, and his family, in New York city and other places.
On October 14, 1910, her parents executed a written agreement of separation in which it is recited that “ They have for some months past been living separate and apart from each other and they have consented and agreed and do hereby…
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