Cockrell v. Cockrell

On March 23, 1934, Dorothy M. Cockrell, plaintiff in error here, filed her petition in the circuit court of Hamilton county for the purpose of seeking a modification of a former decree wherein she was granted an absolute divorce from defendant in error, the custody of a minor child, and alimony. The petition was filed by plaintiff on her own behalf, and as next friend of Grover L. Cock-rell, Jr., and Charles Richard Cockrell; it being alleged that plaintiff was delivered of a second child soon after the entry of the divorce decree, and that the defendant was the father of said child.

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