Lynn v. Wright

FOSTER, Justice.

Petitioner insists that in this case due faith and credit was not given to a decree of a court of Texas awarding by agreement of the parties the custody of a child in 1945 to its paternal grandmother who resided in Russell County, Alabama, with whom the child was then residing. The decree was rendered in a suit for divorce by the mother of the child. The child was not in Texas at the time. A previous judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding' had been rendered in the Circuit Court of Russell County, Alabama, awarding the custody to said grandmother. The Court of Appeals in this…