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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Winifred E. White, Defendant in Error, v. Marion H. Culver and Morton T. Culver, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People ex rel. White v. Culver",
  "decision_date": "1914-10-08",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,642",
  "first_page": "141",
  "last_page": "141",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Winifred E. White, Defendant in Error, v. Marion H. Culver and Morton T. Culver, Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Scanlan\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Scanlan"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Culver, Byron & Culver, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "Winifred E. White, pro se."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Winifred E. White, Defendant in Error, v. Marion H. Culver and Morton T. Culver, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 19,642.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Infants, \u00a7 4 \u2014right of parent to custody of child. The right of parents to the custody of a child is not an absolute one that is accorded to them under any and all circumstances; it may be taken away for good and sufficient cause by the paramount right of the State to insist that the safety, morals, health or happiness of the child be not endangered.\n2. Infants, \u00a7 4 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain finding as to custody of child. In a habeas corpus proceeding by the mother for the custody of her child, a finding that she was legally entitled to its custody held not warranted by the evidence, in view of the testimony as to the fitness of the mother, which showed she did not possess the essential moral character required.\nError to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Foell, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 8, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nPetition by Winifred E. White in the name of the People of the State of Illinois against Marion H. Culver and Morton T. Culver for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the possession and custody of Dorothy Vera White, a young child, the daughter of relatrix. The court found the issues in favor of the relatrix and ordered the respondents to deliver the child to her in open court. From a judgment entered on the findings, respondents prosecute a writ of error.\nCulver, Byron & Culver, for plaintiffs in error.\nWinifred E. White, pro se.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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