Britt v. Britt

The father here appeals from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Pickens County awarding the custody of his four-year-old son to his former wife and the mother of the child.

*218It appears from the record before us that appellee, on May 29, 1963, pursuant to her petition, was granted a, final decree of divorce a vinculo matrimonii from .appellant by the Circuit Court, in Equity, of Pickens County on the grounds of statutory cruelty. Appellant filed an answer denying the charge of cruelty, but there was no serious contest. Neither complainant nor respondent in the divorce proceedings invoked the…