In Re Green

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus, prosecuted by Beulah Green Footman to obtain the custody of her daughter, Margretta Green, a minor of the age <3£ fourteen years, now in the custody of Gretta Banks, a half-sister of petitioner. Mrs. Banks alleges in her return that she took the custody of the minor when the latter was but a few months old, “with the knowledge, consent, and approval of said Beulah Green Footman, and has ever since had the care, custody and control of said Margretta Green, and has clothed her, provided her a home and medical attention, and with a musical, religious and secular education at her own expense”; that, for reasons specifically alleged, petitioner “is not a fit and suitable person to have the care, custody, or control of said Margretta Green”; that after attaining the age of fourteen years, the minor filed in the superior court of Sonoma County her “petition joining with said Gretta Banks in the prayer that said Gretta Banks be appointed guardian of her person and estate, which cause is now pending in the superior court of Sonoma County, ... in which said cause said Margretta Green has designated and appointed said Gretta Banks as her…