Thornton v. Thornton

HAMITER, Justice.

In contest here is the custody of the two minor children born of the union of Alfred T. Thornton and Connie Thornton who married on September 3, 1943, in Franklin Parish and there established the matrimonial domicile.

In 1953 the husband and wife separated and the former moved to Madison Parish where (in January, 1956) he instituted a divorce action. Service of citation was made on the wife at Shreveport in which city she and the children then resided. The action was grounded on the allegation that the litigants had lived separate and apart for more than two years. In an…