Chandler v. Whatley

BOULDIN, Justice.

This appeal involves the custody of Bebe Chandler, a little girl seven years of age, daughter of Jesse Chandler and Lida Belle Chandler. When the child was three years old past, her custody was awarded to her mother in a divorce proceeding wherein the bonds of matrimony were dissolved between her parents. The wife obtained the divorce in an uncontested suit on the ground Of cruelty. Some five and one-half months thereafter, the mother married Jimmie Whatley. A little more than three years later, the mother died at the .time of the birth of another baby girl by her second…