Sims v. Sims

SMITH, Justice.

This is an appeal by Aubrey L. Sims from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County, in which the court declined to modify its former decree which had awarded custody of his minor child to its mother, the Appellee, Frances Elaine W. Sims.

The parties were divorced on April 1, 1965, the decree having awarded custody of the daughter of the parties, then eighteen months old, to her mother, the appellee. On August 3, 1966, appellant filed a petition praying that the former decree be modified and custody of the child awarded to him, alleging, as a basis therefor, that there had…