Williams v. Woolfolk

Buchanan, j.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The main question presented by this appeal is whether the custody of a child as previously fixed by one court of the State in a divorce suit may afterwards be changed by another court in a habeas corpus proceeding.

By final decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Alexandria entered August 11, 1943, Ethel T. Woolfolk (now Williams), plaintiff in error, was granted an absolute divorce from Douglas C. Woolfolk on the ground of desertion, and was awarded the custody of their child, Alice, then seven years old. • '

*314Subsequently, on July 8, 1947,…