Brown v. Brown

The duly verified petition in this case sets forth that petitioner and defendant are husband and wife and that they have lived together as such at Browns Mills, Burlington county, New Jersey, from the time of the marriage in 1924 until September 16th, 1932; that upon that date the wife deserted petitioner without just cause and took with her the two infant children of the marriage and has since refused to return to the petitioner or to allow him to have the children or even to see them.

The prayer is for a writ of habeas corpus for the production of the children and for an order awarding the…