LYNN v. WRIGHT

4 Div. 564.

42 So.2d 490 (1949)

LYNN et al. v. WRIGHT.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 13, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Brassell, of Phenix City, for petitioners.

A. L. Patterson, of Phenix City, opposed.


FOSTER, Justice.

Petitioner insists that in this case due faith and credit was not given to a decree of a court of Texas awarding by agreement of the parties the custody of a child in 1945 to its paternal grandmother who resided in Russell County, Alabama, with whom the child was then residing. The decree was rendered in a suit for divorce by the mother of the child. The child was not in Texas at the time. A previous judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding had been...

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