Walker v. Myers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; Jas. Andrews, Judge. Consolidated actions by Eva Walker against Whittington Walker, in which defendant filed a rule requiring plaintiff to show cause why decree therein rendered should not he modified so as to award defendant custody of child previously awarded plaintiff, by Whittington Walker against Pearley Myers and wife, in which Eva Walker intervened, and by Whittington Walker against Eva Walker.
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Appeal from Thirteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; Jas. Andrews, Judge. Consolidated actions by Eva Walker against Whittington Walker, in which defendant filed a rule requiring plaintiff to show cause why decree therein rendered should not he modified so as to award defendant custody of child previously awarded plaintiff, by Whittington Walker against Pearley Myers and wife, in which Eva Walker intervened, and by Whittington Walker against Eva Walker. Judgments for Whit-üngton Walker in the three suits, and the other parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
By Division A, composed of Chief Justice PROVOST!', and Justices OVERTON and RECITE. (Note. — In this case, Mr. Justice OVERTON recused himself, and Mr. Justice ST. PAUR, of Division C, sat in his stead.)
PROVOSTY, C. J.
The two principal actors in these three consolidated suits, Whit-tington Walker and Eva Walker, were married in December, 1916, she being then 16 years old. He was a sawmill or lumber camp laborer, and she an orphan who had, been raised by an uncle, who, too, was a sawmill or lumber camp laborer. They do not seem to have lived together happily, for he sought several times,…
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