Sparkman v. Sparkman

BOULDIN, J.'

This is a contest, by bill in equity, between father and mother, for the custody of an infant daughter, now five years of age.

The two young, people, of good families, were married in Franklin county, Tenn., February 9,1921, and thereafter resided upon a farm near the town of Huntland in that county until November, 1923, when the wife left the home of her husband, and returned to that of her father in'Huntland. She carried their baby, Ruth, then nearing two years of age.

After some unsuccessful overtures to induce his wife to return,. the husband took their baby, carried her to the…