Smith v. Ford

288 So.2d 71 (1974)

Georgia Price Ford SMITH

v.

Laurence Joseph FORD.

No. 5988.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 8, 1974.

William F. Wessel, George J. G. Roux, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sydney J. Parlongue, Philip R. Riegel, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before REDMANN and STOULIG, JJ., and FLEMING, J. Pro Tem.

REDMANN, Judge.

A mother appeals from a judgment denying her and granting the father legal custody of three children whom she had left in the physical custody of their father for almost two years.

The mother, formerly a resident of North Carolina, there…