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LAWSON v. LAWSON

94 S.E.2d 215 (1956)

198 Va. 403

J. A. LAWSON and Rebecca Lawson v. Edna Hancock LAWSON.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 4, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Nelson Sutton, West Point (John Paul Causey, Sutton & Causey, West Point, on the brief), for appellants.

Beverley H. Randolph, Jr., Richmond (V. C. Adamson, Richmond, on the brief), for appellee.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.

SPRATLEY, Justice.

The sole issue in this case involves the custody of two infants, Linda Ann Lawson, ten years of age, and Patricia, nine years, the daughters of Levi Owen Lawson and Edna Hancock Lawson. Levi Owen Lawson having died during the pendency of this appeal, the controversy is between the mother of the children on the one side and the uncle of the children, J. A. Lawson and his wife, Rebecca Lawson, on the other.

On August 3, 1951, Edna Hancock...

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