Wallick v. Vance

This is a case involving the custody of Kathryn Vance, a young girl born March 17, 1917. The defendant is the father of the girl. Plaintiff is the girl’s aunt and sister of defendant.

Plaintiff avers that when Kathryn was less than a year old her mother died of tuberculosis; that when the child was thirteen months of age defendant brought it to Memphis, Tenn., and by oral gift committed the child to the permanent custody of his mother, Nora Vance, and his sister, the plaintiff. This was in April 1918. Plaintiff further avers that since that time she and her mother, with the assistance received…