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Gurr v. Gurr.
    Atkinson, J. — A writ of habeas corpus having been sued out before the ordinary for the custody of a minor child by its father against its mother, the parents at the time living in a state of separation, and the ordinary having awarded the custody of the child to the father, and this judgment having been immediately executed, after which the mother presented to the judge of the superior court a petition for certiorari to review all the proceedings in the ease had before the ordinary, it was error, after sanctioning the petition for certiorari, to add to the sanction an order directing that the sheriff restore the child in dispute to the custody of its mother, the plaintiff in certiorari, the judge having no power or authority to grant such order. Mayor & Council of Macon v. Shaw, 14 Ga. 162; Lindsey v. Lindsey, Ibid. 657; Taylor v. Gay, 20 Ga. 77; Board of Commissioners of Burke County v. Wimberly, 55 Ga. 570; Seamans v. King, 79 Ga. 613.
    February 27,1895.
    
      Certiorari. Before Judge Fish. Houston county. May 28, 1894.
    Louis L. Brown, for plaintiff in error.
   Judgment reversed.