CUSTODY OF A CHILD.
WRIT OF HABEAS ~ CORPUS. , • The case in which there «u a dispute between Maoris., over the custody of a five-year-old child, was decided by Mr. Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court yesterday. The circumstances were that when his wife was ill in 1916, the father gave the child into the care of his fosterparents. The father died in 1918, and the foster-parents had refused to hand the child back to the mother. His Honor ordered the issue of a writ of habeas corpus to the foster-parents to have the child brought' before the, Court immediately; and that the parties be informed of an appropriate date and hour. He. said that while he fully sympathised with thd desire of the foster-parents to keep the chi'd the legal rights were with the , mother. „.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17595, 7 October 1920, Page 8
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