Maxwell v. Maxwell

LUMPKIN, Justice.

This is an appeal by John H. Maxwell, appellant, from a judgment awarding $2650 to Ruby Mina Maxwell, appellee, as a refund for monies expended by her in the support and maintenance of their minor daughter, Zella Rosemary Maxwell. This case is the culmination of years of wrangling by these parties over the custody and support of their minor child.

When Zella Maxwell was about two years old, so the record reveals, her parents were granted a divorce by the 96th District Court of Tarrant County, Texas. In the decree, dated October 28, 1931, the appel-lee was awarded the custody…