Stapleton v. Poynter

Opinion of the court by

JUDGE O’REAR

Affirming.

This action was instituted by apppllee, the mother o’f 'John Craig Stapleton, to recover his possession of appellants, his paternal grandfather and grandmother; the lad being then about nine years of age. Appellee is a widow. The father of the boy bad died some years previous, leaving no estate, and the widowed mother had none. Appel*265lee, who assumes her maiden name, and W. R. Stapleton were married in 1888, and after a brief and unhappy union, of three or four years, a separation ensued; being, as the record discloses an abandonment of appellee by…