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WADE v. LEE

No. 54804.

471 So.2d 1213 (1985)

Ruth Ann Steele WADE v. Israel Sylvester LEE, IV.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Mansour, Jr., Mansour & Thomas, Greenville, for appellant.

Eugene Sexton Berry, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is another of those cases the moral of which is that our law accords value to the best interest of a minor child secondary only to life itself. This premise in mind, it should startle no one that a county judge presented with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a non-custodial parent followed by proof that the custodial parent had become a frequent drug user and...

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