Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Canova
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided January 8, 1910No. 7415PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Before Prince J., Charleston, Petition by Annie Canova for writ of habeas corpus against Eoka Rigby, for possession of child. From Circuit order commanding the child delivered to petitioner, respondents appeal. The opinion in this case was filed on October 7, 1909, but remittitur held up on petition for rehearing until
1Opinion of the Court
January 8, 1910. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The petitioner, Mrs. Annie Canova, under proceedings in habeas corpus before Judge Prince, in Charleston county, was awarded the custody of her infant child, Theodore Atkinson, as against Mrs. Loka Rigby, who had possession of the child under an alleged parol gift from the mother.
The facts found by the Circuit Court are as follows:
"In the month of August, 1906, the petitioner, Annie Canova, being then Annie Atkinson, and the mother of the infant, Theodore Atkinson, made a parol gift of such infant to the respondent, Loka Rigby, and…
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