Knollhoff v. Norris

This is a child custody matter which reaches us by certified question.

Wallace Eugene Norris and Marian Norris, husband and wife, were divorced. The custody of a baby girl, Vera Lynn Norris, (now five years old) was awarded to Marian as the mother who thereafter died in Lubbock. The father lived in Pecos County. Immediately following the mother’s' death, a Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Knollhoff, whose relationship to the child is not apparent from the record, took the child from Lubbock to,their home in Sudan, Lamb County, Texasi

On November 5, 1951 the father, W. E. Morris, filed a plead-’ ing in the…