Ferguson v. State

STAKELY, Justice.

The fundamental question presented on this appeal relates to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in Equity, to award the custody of a girl three years old, the child of the parties to this cause.

Howard Ferguson (appellant), a resident of Portsmouth, Virginia, married Margaret Boarman (Ferguson) on ' November 29, 1943, in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. Margaret Boarman Ferguson went to Virginia to live with her husband and became a resident of the State of Virginia and continued to be a resident there living with Howard Ferguson as his wife.…