Craighead v. Davis

Quillian, Chief Judge.

This court granted Georgia Craighead’s application for interlocutory appeal to determine whether or not the Brantley County Superior Court should have accepted jurisdiction over the custody issue of her minor child.

On October 16, 1975, Georgia Craighead gave birth to an illegitimate child while cohabiting with Sherman Davis in Washington County, Florida. The child resided with her mother in Florida from her birth in 1975 until her father took her to his home in Brantley County, Georgia, on January 30, 1981. Davis testified he told her mother he would return the child “in…