HOLTSCLAW v. MERCER

No. 8656.

145 F.2d 388 (1944)

HOLTSCLAW v. MERCER et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia

Decided October 30, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Maurice Friedman and Maxwell A. Ostrow, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. James R. Kirkland, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.


PER CURIAM.

When appellant was only sixteen years of age she gave birth to a female child. A few months later she signed an agreement relinquishing to appellees all of her "rights, claims and title to the said infant as its mother or otherwise." From then on for three and a half years the child remained in the home and custody of appellees. On June 1, 1943, appellant, having in the meantime married, filed this petition for habeas corpus, claiming she had been forced...

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