Monday, December 14, 2015

Legal Tug-of-War Over 2-Year-Old Murray Parish, 1921

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Dec. 22, 1921.

On Wednesday of last week habeas corpus proceedings were argued before Judge Lane at Carthage by Sedberry & Phillips for 2-year-old Murray Parish and H.H. McLendon for the defendants.

It seems that some time ago the mother of Murray Parish signed papers giving the child to Alton Quick and wife. About two weeks ago while the foster parents were at work in Steele’s Mills, the mother and her second husband drove up where the child was left in the care of Mrs. J.P. Jenkins and took him away, going to Anson county. The Quicks then started an action to recover the child.

After hearing the arguments, Judge Lane issued an interlocutory order where by the child is to remain with the mother until the question can be argued before the Scotland county Clerk of Court as to whether the letter of adoption shall be revoked or allowed to stand.

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