Murphey v. Walker

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a child custody case in which ap-pellees, Cecile Walker, joined by her husband James R. Walker, filed suit against appellant, Ashford B. Murphey, for the award of full time custody and control of Martha Gene 'Murphey, a girl born January 18, 1941, to the marriage of Cecile Walker and Ashford B. Murphey.

The record reveals that the natural parents of the said child were both residents of Texas when they married on June 7, 1938, and lived together as husband and wife until some time early in 1945; ■ that appellant enlisted in the Navy from Texas some time in the…