Epperson v. Berry

PEDEN, Justice.

The father of Rebecca Epperson, a girl six years old, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict changing the custody provision of an earlier divorce decree and awarding custody of the child to her mother. The divorce decree had been entered on January 16, 1968. It recited that the divorce was tried before a jury on December 12, 1967. In the decree Niles Ep-person was granted a divorce from Sandra Epperson and these jury findings were stated:

“3. That the Plaintiff and Cross-Defendant, SANDRA F. EPPERSON, is not a fit and proper person, and that it would not bé in the…