Hathorn v. Hathorn

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Billie Marie Barbo Hathorn, is appealing from that portion of the District Court’s judgment of June 27, 1957, which decreed that the care, custody and control of the minor child Billie Jean Hathorn (issue of the marriage between her and the plaintiff, Lonzo L. Hathorn), “be and remain with and be awarded to” the plaintiff, reserving to the defendant the right to visit and see the child at reasonable intervals.1 Appellant contends that under our well settled jurisprudence, the paramount right to custody is in the mother in the absence of a showing of moral…