Case ID: ill-app_223/html/0651-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Graves", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A. L. Brown and Mary J. Brown, defendants in error, v. Roy E. Wilson, plaintiff in error. People ex rel. Roy E. Wilson, plaintiff in error, v. A. L. Brown and Mary J. Brown, defendants in error.
    Habeas corpus to obtain custody of plaintiff’s minor daughter. Adoption proceedings begun by the grandparents. Writ of habeas corpus denied and order of adoption made. Writ of error prosecuted in each case and the two consolidated by agreement. Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. John B. Weaver, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1920.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed October 25, 1921.
    Charles E. Gard and Robert H. Patton, for plaintiff in error.
    A. M. Fitzgerald and W. A. Ruegg, for defendants in error.
   Mr. Presiding Justice Graves

delivered the opinion of the court.