Hatten v. Pearson

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, which defined and modified the visitation rights of the appellant and appel-lee with their minor daughter, Jennie Lynn Hatten, who was born on March IS, 1961. The essential facts, stated as tersely as possible, are that a decree of June 23, 1966, modified a final decree of December 19, 1964, in that the chancellor decreed that it would be in the “best interest of the child, and the child’s interest would be promoted” by the permanent care and custody of the child being granted to the…