BEVAN v. BEVAN

No. 12901.

283 S.W.2d 305 (1955)

Thomas J. BEVAN, Appellant, v. Mary Margaret BEVAN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied October 26, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fischer, Wood, Burney & Nesbitt, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Lewright, Dyer, Sorrell & Redford, J. McCollum Burnett, Corpus Christi, for appellee.


POPE, Justice.

This suit is for permanent child custody. Whether the Oklahoma Courts or the Texas Courts have jurisdiction over two minor children is the controlling question in the case. We conclude that Oklahoma had jurisdiction and never lost it, and for that reason the judgment of the Texas Court is reversed.

Thomas J. Bevan, appellant, and Mary Margaret Bevan, appellee, were married in 1938. Two boys were born of that marriage, and they are the subjects...

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