IN RE ERNST

Calendar No. 41, Docket No. 50,274.

373 Mich. 337 (1964)

129 N.W.2d 430

In re ERNST.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard H. Campbell, for plaintiff.

McGinn & Menefee, for defendants.


BLACK, J. (dissenting).

"A child is not a chattel nor subject to ownership as such."1

As 1964 has brought another change of our personnel, a little child may lead the remaining parent-minded — distinguished from child-minded — Brethren from out that legal fog into which they seem to stray when a child custody case arrives here. That child could be little Gerri Ernst. And if Gerri, armed as she is with innocence...

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