Edwards v. Martin

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This is a contest between appellant, the mother, and appellee, the grandmother, over the custody of a minor child. From an order awarding its care and custody to the grandmother comes this appeal. The record reflects that in 1948 appellant (then Ernestine Martin) married Bob Foord and the child in question, Bichard James Foord, was born to them February 19, 1952. While bringing his wife and child to Camden, Arkansas from Indiana on October 22, 1952, Foord’s automobile struck the abutment of a bridge over the St. Francis Biver and he was killed, and the…