HICKMAN v. HICKMAN

No. 2915.

227 So.2d 14 (1969)

Vergil Dupre HICKMAN, Petitioner in Habeas Corpus Proceeding, Respondent, v. Nellie Jo Price HICKMAN, Defendant in Habeas Corpus Proceeding, Relator.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion October 13, 1969.

Rehearing Denied October 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford & Nugent, by Howard N. Nugent, Jr., Alexandria, for defendant-relator.

Gravel, Roy & Burnes, by Richard Burnes, Alexandria, for plaintiff-respondent.

Before TATE, SAVOY, HOOD, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

We granted supervisory writs to assure immediate review of a trial court judgment awarding a father-husband custody of the three minor girls (ages 12, 10, and 6) of the marriage.

The father's right to the children is founded on a previous order granting him temporary custody during a pending suit for separation (with reconventional demand for divorce). The mother's essential defense is that this prior suit was extinguished by the reconciliation...

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