Phillips v. Phillips

Suit for divorce by Haines L. Phillips against Elva E. Phillips, wherein defendant filed a cross-complaint. The defendant was awarded decree of divorce and the custody of the child, and from a subsequent order awarding the custody of the child to defendant, plaintiff appeals.

AFFIRMED. REHEARING DENIED. This is a controversy over the custody of a minor child, Jo Ann Phillips, now approaching her seventh birthday. Her parents, the plaintiff and defendant in the suit, were married in 1931 and divorced January 15, 1940. The divorce suit was commenced by the plaintiff, Haines L. Phillips, who, in…