Lawson v. Lawson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

Mrs. Majorie B. Lawson sued Richard B. Lawson for divorce, asking to be awarded custody of their infant son, Brooke Lawson, alimony and maintenance.

Upon the chancellor’s hearing of the cause, on April 6, 1935, he granted the plaintiff an absolute divorce, to gether with the custody and control of the infant, Brooke Lawson, then about five years of age, and $30 a month, payable to her, for the child’s care and maintenance.

Some three years after the court’s entering of its, judgment, in June 1938, the divorce action was reinstated on the docket, when…