Moss v. Ingram

STAKELY, Justice.

This is a proceeding to determine the right to the custody of a little girl named Mary Ellen Mott, three years of age, as between Lovine Alice Ingram, formerly Lovine Alice Mott, the mother of the child, and J. L. Moss, the stepfather of the mother. The equity court granted the custody of the child to the mother. This appeal is from that decree.

On June 5, 1942, the Circuit Court of Mobile County, in Equity, rendered a decree granting Lovine Alice Mott a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from William Ira Mott. In that decree the custody of Mary Ellen Mott, the aforesaid…