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  "id": 1600823,
  "name": "Marie BLACK v. Robert L. JENNINGS and Mary Lou JENNINGS",
  "name_abbreviation": "Black v. Jennings",
  "decision_date": "1969-12-15",
  "docket_number": "5-5099",
  "first_page": "793",
  "last_page": "794",
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      "cite": "247 Ark. 793"
    },
    {
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      "cite": "448 S.W.2d 18"
    }
  ],
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ark.",
    "id": 8808,
    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:32:29.213565+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Marie BLACK v. Robert L. JENNINGS and Mary Lou JENNINGS"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "George Rose Smith, Justice.\nThe decree in this case must be affirmed under Rule 9. The appellant\u2019s opening statement indicates that in the trial court the appellees \u2019 petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the custody of two minor children was granted on the ground that an earlier award of custody in a Texas court was entitled to full faith and credit. The opening statement, however, asserts facts not to be found in the record, contains no page references to the transcript, and certainly cannot be treated as even a partial abstract of the record within Rule 9.\nThe abstract itself barely exceeds a printed page in length. It gives no information whatever about the relationship of the parties to the two children, about the domicile of the litigants or of the children, or about the contents of the Texas order, which apparently is the most vital document to be considered in the case. The appellees have not filed a brief. We dislike deciding cases on grounds other than the merits, but here we have no choice. It is not practical for the seven judges to read the transcript, but that is the only way in which we could all obtain sufficient information about the facts to consider the case on its merits.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "George Rose Smith, Justice."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Bill J. Davis, for .appellant.",
      "William I. Prewett, for appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Marie BLACK v. Robert L. JENNINGS and Mary Lou JENNINGS\n5-5099\n448 S. W. 2d 18\nOpinion delivered December 15, 1969\nBill J. Davis, for .appellant.\nWilliam I. Prewett, for appellees."
  },
  "file_name": "0793-01",
  "first_page_order": 815,
  "last_page_order": 816
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