Copeland v. State, ex rel. Kayser

On the 9th day of July, 1875’, Mary A. Kayser filed in the office of the clerk of the Marion Circuit Court, being in vacation of said court, her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that, on the 19th day of February, 1870, the petitioner, then an unmarried woman, and bearing the name of Mary A. West, was de*395livered of an illegitimate female child, which afterward took the name of Minnie West; that, on the 3d day of June, 1875, she was duly married to one Godfrey Kayser,. with whom she was then living and cohabiting as his wife, in the city of Indianapolis, in said State; that the…