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SPENCE v. DURHAM

No. 18.

198 S.E.2d 537 (1973)

Susan Durham SPENCE v. James Robert DURHAM et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 31, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hudson, Petree, Stockton, Stockton & Robinson by Norwood Robinson, and White & Crumpler, by Fred G. Crumpler, Jr., Winston-Salem, for Susan Durham Spence, plaintiff appellant.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by W. P. Sandridge, Winston-Salem, for Mr. and Mrs. James Robert Durham (parents of plaintiff).

Hatfield, Allman and Hall, by Roy G. Hall, Jr., James W. Armentrout, and Weston P. Hatfield, Winston-Salem, for Ronald Kenneth Spence, Richard T. Spence, and Frances Hawkins Spence, defendant appellees.

SHARP, Justice:

Plaintiff, Susan Durham Spence, born 11 June 1935, instituted this action on 24 May 1971 to obtain the custody of her two minor daughters, Fay Frances Spence, born 15 June 1962, and Dianna Jeannene Spence, born 5 June 1964. The defendants are Ronald Kenneth Spence, the children's father (Spence); James Robert Durham and wife, Faye M. Durham, the parents of plaintiff (maternal grandparents or Durhams); and Richard T. Spence and wife, Frances H. Spence...

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