Williams v. Davenport

Birdsong, Judge.

The appellee Davenport, putative father of an illegitimate child whom he had never legitimated, filed a complaint in superior court alleging that the appellant Frankie Ann Williams is the natural mother, with custody, of the seven-year - old boy, and that because she “is not a fit and proper person to have custody of said child by reason of her intemperate habits and her inability to adequately care for the child,” he (Davenport) was “entitled to custody” of the child. The mother did not appear at the hearing; the superior court judge did not appoint an attorney for the child.…