Case ID: la-ann_16/html/0257-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Vooehies, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the matter of Jules Manouvrier and Wife praying for a writ of Habeas Corpus.—On Rule Nisi.
    The right of this Court to issue writs of habeas corpus extends only to cases where the parties are in actual custody under process, in all cases in which it may have appellate jurisdiction. It does not extend to the authority of taking a child from the custody of its parents.
    ON ■ a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
    
    
      Carlee & Bayne and V. B. & J. B. Cotton, for the petitioner.
   Vooehies, J.

The relators claim the custody of a child, whom they have adopted. The defendants, the father and mother, resist the application on several grounds, stated in their answer.

Our jurisdiction is appellate in all civil matters; and our authority to issue writs of Habeas Corpus extends only to cases where the parties are in actual custody under process in all cases, in which we may have appellate jurisdiction. Const. Art. 69.

As it is not pretended that the child, whose custody is the object of the present controversy, is in actual custody under process of law, we must decline taking-cognizance of this application.

Rule discharged.