Buck v. Squires

This was an action of habeas corpus for the custody of an infant a few days past one year of age. The defendant (appellee) was its maternal grandmother, and the plaintiff (appellant) had been appointed as its guardian, but was not shown to be otherwise related. The complaint alleged that the child’s father was a person of unsound mind, under guardianship in Sullivan county, Indiana, that its mother was dead, that on her death, four months before, the defendant “unlawfully and illegally took possession of said child without right”, that defendant had no natural right to the custody of the…