WATTS v. HATCHEL

No. 4823.

249 S.W.2d 69 (1952)

WATTS et al. v. HATCHEL et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

April 24, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. T. McNeill, Beaumont, Dibrell, Gardner, Dotson & Graham, San Antonio, for appellants.

Baker, Vaughan & Black, Port Arthur, for appellees.


R. L. MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Criminal District Court of Jefferson County, involving the custody of a minor child, Linda Jean Hatchel, now six years of age.

The appellants, Mrs. R. C. Watts and Duane B. Hatchel, the mother and father of the child, were divorced in Nacogdoches County in May, 1946. The divorce decree was entered on a cross-action filed by Duane B. Hatchel, and at the time the parties had only the one child,...

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