GOOLSBEE v. HEFT

No. 1022.

549 S.W.2d 34 (1977)

Homer Wayne GOOLSBEE, Appellant, v. Vernon HEFT ex ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Tyler.

March 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. Patterson, Nichols & Parker, Longview, for appellant.

Ebb B. Mobley, Mobley & Green, Longview, for appellees.


McKAY, Justice.

This case involves the question of whether a court may grant visitation rights to the maternal grandparents over the objection of the child's father. The appellees, Vernon Heft and wife, Dorothy Heft, (the grandparents) instituted this action seeking to be appointed managing conservators of the child, Colby Aaron Goolsbee, but later amended their pleadings to seek only specific access rights. The father made a motion to dismiss plaintiff's first amended...

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