Maddock v. Killius

SIMPSON, Justice.

This appeal involves a contest between the parents-for custody of their six-year-old daughter.

In 1953, a few days prior to a decree of divorcement granted by a Pennsylvania court, they entered into an agreement providing that the mother should have custody of the child during the school term and the father during the twelve-weeks summer vacation.

The mother thereafter moved to Alabama and in May, 1954, the father-filed a petition in the circuit court of Baldwin County, Alabama, seeking the permanent custody of the child and the mother countered with a cross-petition also…