Duffy v. King

IRWIN, Justice.

On April 22, 1957, in a divorce action pending in the 16th Judicial District Court of Cooke County, Texas, wherein Sara Ristell Duffy was plaintiff and Bernard R. Duffy was defendant, a decree was entered in favor of Sara Ristell Duffy dissolving the bonds of matrimony and granting her an absolute divorce from Bernard R. Duffy. The decree awarded the custody of the minor child of the parties, William Jonathan Duffy, (age 3 years and 9 months), to Sara Ristell Duffy with reasonable visitation to the defendant. The decree also contained the following order:

“It is further ordered,…