Pullen v. Pullen

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the judge of the district court for the parish of De Soto to exercise jurisdiction over a proceeding brought by the relatrix to modify a decree awarding the custody of three of her five minor children to their father, in a judgment of divorce, which she obtained against him two years ago.

In her suit for divorce, on statutory grounds, the plaintiff prayed for the care and custody of the five children, averring that, for reasons which she stated, she was entitled thereto. In his answer to the suit the defendant admitted that every allegation of the…