Thompson v. Foster

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Attala County wherein the Chancellor awarded the permanent care, custody and control of William Anthony Foster, a minor, to his father, appellee herein, thereby modifying a decree rendered on February 18, 1966, which had granted the minor’s grandmother, appellant herein, his custody.

The 1966 decree stated in part as follows :

That the said child, William Anthony Foster, has lived with and been supported by the said Lydia Thompson, his maternal grandmother, and that his father, Laddie Foster, Jr., petitioner, has wholly failed to make any substantial…