Bowden v. Fayard

355 So.2d 662 (1978)

Noble Clifton BOWDEN

v.

Linda Bowden FAYARD.

No. 49976.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 22, 1978.

Graves, Riley & Meadows, Joseph R. Meadows, Gulfport, for appellant.

Sekul, Hornsby, Wallace & Teel, Biloxi, Jimmy D. McGuire, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., SUGG and BOWLING, JJ., and BARNETT, Commissioner.

JAMES ARDEN BARNETT, Commissioner for the Court:[1]

This is an appeal from a decree changing custody of three minor children from the father to the mother. Being in a state of emotional depression in March 1975 due to the recent death of their youngest child,…