Mills v. Howard

STOKES, Justice.

Appellee, M. P. Howard, and appellant, Reída Mills, were formerly husband and wife and resided in Curry County, New Mexico. They were divorced by a judgment of the district court of Curry County in 1946. One child, Ruth Ann Howard, was born to the marriage and she was thirty-one months of age at the time the divorce was granted. The custody of the child was awarded to appellee from September until the following June of each year and to the appellant for the months of June, July and August. No controversy seems to have arisen over this arrangement until December 1948, when the…