Briggs v. Briggs

WADE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Lillian Mae Briggs, commenced habeas corpus proceedings against George S. Briggs for the custody of Glenda Lanell Briggs, their minor child. Defendant appeals from a judgment awarding the child to plaintiff.

Both plaintiff and defendant áre natives of Texas. They intermarried November 24, 1934, and at first lived at Port Arthur where they acquired a home and where Glenda on May 26,1937, was born. Later they moved to Orange, Texas, but still retained their home in Port Arthur. While there some marital trouble arose and plaintiff took the child and went back to their…