Evans v. Lane

Mrs. M. J. Lane sued out a writ of habeas corpus against J. H.«Evans Jr., for the possession of Willie Evans, an infant daughter of the defendant, a little over two years old. The petitioner alleged, that the mother of the child, who was her daughter, died when it was three weeks.old, and that the child was thereafter cared for and adopted by her with the consent of its father; that he had failed ever since the death of the mother of the child to provide necessaries for its maintenance, and that it had been supported and nursed in illness and in health by the petitioner and her children; that…