Taylor v. Newblock

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dale, O. J.:

William Taylor filed his petition in this court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging illegal restraint by H. F. Newblock, sheriff of Cleveland county. The writ was granted, return was made, and from the petition and return we find that the imprisonment of the petitioner arises out of his failure to obey an order of Henry W. Scott, then judge of the district court of Cleveland county, and which order was issued out of said court in a proceeding for divorce.

Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: Elizabeth Taylor brought an action for a…