TALIAFERRO v. SIMS

No. 13153.

187 F.2d 6 (1951)

TALIAFERRO v. SIMS.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth S. Taliaferro, Harrisonburg, Va., for appellant.

Floyd W. Cunningham, Booneville, Miss., J. O. Sams, Columbus, Miss., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and McCORD and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by plaintiff, herself a lawyer, for herself as client, against the lawyer of her ex-husband, this suit for damages, actual and exemplary, is the outgrowth of an earlier struggle in and out of court between her and her ex-husband, W. P. Ferguson. This struggle was for the control and custody of their youngest child, James Smith Ferguson, which had been awarded to her in the divorce decree.

Four counts of the six count complaint...

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