Thompson v. Thompson

Mobley, Justice.

The exception is to a judgment of the Superior Court of Hancock County in a habeas corpus proceeding brought by the mother and father of Joanne Thompson, a thirteen-year-old girl, against the grandmother and two aunts of the child, awarding custody to the grandmother with prescribed visitation rights in the father and mother.

The evidence was in conflict as to the question of gift of the child by the parents to the grandmother, as to the failure of the father to provide necessaries for the child since her birth, as to whether the father and mother were fit persons to have…