Woodrum v. Dunn

JONES, Justice.

Thurlan E. Woodrum appeals from a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court awarding the custody of his eight-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Thurlan, to Mrs. Milton Dunn, the maternal grandmother.

Appellant, Thurlan E. Woodrum, divorced his wife, Patsy Ann, in July 1969, while he was in military service. Custody of their infant daughter had been awarded to the mother, Patsy Ann, in an interlocutory decree entered of record on June 28, 1967. Thurlan was directed to pay for the support of his infant daughter the sum of $15.00 per week. At the time of the judgment Patsy Ann and the…