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STATE EX REL. MOUTON v. WILLIAMS

No. 40794.

62 So.2d 641 (1952)

222 La. 457

STATE ex rel. MOUTON v. WILLIAMS et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mestayer & Mestayer, New Iberia, for relator and appellant.

L. O. Pecot, Franklin, for respondent and appellee.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which a mother, Mrs. Vivian Mouton Williams, seeks the custody of her 11-year-old daughter, Mary Ann Williams, now living and residing with a paternal uncle, T. C. Williams. After trial on the merits the lower court recalled the writ and dismissed the mother's suit, and she has appealed.

The mother, Mrs. Vivian Mouton Williams, was divorced from her husband, now deceased, in 1948, and in those proceedings...

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