Taylor v. Jackson

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is a child custody case.

The child was born on June 8, 1953 and was taken by its mother, who was estranged from her husband, to her father during the month of September, 1953, to keep while she went on a cotton pick, and on her return two weeks later, went to Houston to seek employment and remained there for some months, during which time she visited the child a few times.

Subsequently the mother went to San Antonio and resumed marriage relationship with her husband, the child’s father, which only lasted a few weeks, and then returned to Columbus, Texas until 1956.…