Carter v. Lambert
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Callaban County; Joe Burkett, Judge. Habeas corpus by George Carter against Henry Lambert and wife, to obtain tbe custody of a minor daughter of petitioner. From a judgment awarding the custody of the child during part of the year to respondents, her grandparents, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
This suit arose out of a controversy over the right of custody of an eight year old child, Dona May Carter, between her father, George Carter and her maternal grandparents, Henry Lambert and wife. A former suit involving the same question had been compromised, and an agreed judgment formulated and entered upon the docket of the court, but it seems it was not incorporated in the minutes. Some feeling seems to have been engendered between the father and the grandparents, and in the effort to comply with the terms of the agreed judgment misunderstandings arose, and the father concluded that he…
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