People ex rel. Baumgarten v. Krueger

Writ of error to review an order of the circuit court of January 24, 1928, dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus instituted for the purpose of obtaining the custody of a minor child.

Petitioner, Herman A. Baumgarten, was the father of the child and the defendants, Louis Krueger and Amanda Krueger, defended on the ground that they were the adoptive parents under a decree entered in the county court of Cook county.

From the record it appears that the petitioner and the mother of the child were married May 21, 1913, in Chicago, and, at the time war was declared, were residing in…