THE SALAMAN CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18531, 13 July 1922, Page 9

THE SALAMAN CASE.

APPEAL against judgment. (Per Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, July 12. ! The Salaman case came before tne 1 Appeal Court to-day in the form ot an appeal from a jiMgment by Mr' Justice Hosking issuing a writ of habeas corpus directing that Marjorie Sdlamau bring her child before the Court. The real contest between the parties is whether It would be for the child’s welfare I that it should be removed from the mother’s custody. Mr' JelHcoe appeared for appellant, and Mr Myers (with him Mr Leicester) for the respondent father. Mr Myers raised a preliminary objection that th<- appeal was not in time, but tne Court gave leave to go on with the appeal. Mr Jellieoe contended:-—(1) that the issue of a writ of habeas corpus had been made owing to misrepresentation and suppression ot facts; ('.’) that the mother’s custody* of the children was legal, and that the Court hail no juristdiction to interfere with it by writ of habeas corpus. The custody of the child was given to her by a deed of separation between the parties, an< that deed had not been avoided by divorce or by anything else. He dealt at length with the evidence. Argument was still proceeding when the Court adjourned. “ '