Case Summary

Percival Tully petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve his thirteen-year-old daughter, Alice Tully, from George Fisher, which was granted. Percival accused George of illegally detaining Alice; George responded that Percival had given him custody, which Percival denied. After hearing the evidence, Alice was released into the custody of her father.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Interpersonal

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Released from custody

Case Citation

St. Louis Law Commissioners' Court, April Term 1855, No. 97

Source material(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Repository(s)

• Missouri State Archives-St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)

State

• Missouri

Point(s) of law cited

Ch. 73 §1 of the 1845 Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, p. 547

Tag(s)

• Children

People

• Tully, Alice (bound party)
• Tully, Percival (petitioner)
• Fisher, George W. (respondent)
• Fisher, George W. (responding party)
• Fisher, George W. (holding party)
• Colvin, John W. (judge)
• Primm, Wilson (petitioner attorney)
• Romyn, William John (petitioner attorney)

• Additional parties

  Timberlake, William H. (marshal)

  du Breuil, Louis (justice of the peace)

  Tully, Jane (presumed relative of bound party and petitioner)