Nickle v. Burnett
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Panola county. Hon. Jas. Gr. McGtowen, Chancellor. Suit by Miss Tecoa Burnett against B¡. C. Nickle for the custody of a child. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. This case is one of almost every-day occurrence. Here we have a clean-cut contest for the custody of a child between the father of the child and a maiden aunt.
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Appeal from chancery court of Panola county. Hon. Jas. Gr. McGtowen, Chancellor. Suit by Miss Tecoa Burnett against B¡. C. Nickle for the custody of a child. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. This case is one of almost every-day occurrence. Here we have a clean-cut contest for the custody of a child between the father of the child and a maiden aunt. Let me say in the beginning that we are fortunate in this argument in being able to say that as far as moral conditions are concerned there is no contest; it being shown and admitted without contradiction or hesitation that the moral…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellee filed a bill in the chancery court for the custody, control, and possession of Carl Nickle against his father, Clifton Nickle, in which she alleged that the said child is about nine years of age, and that she had administered to his necessities since he was less than one year old; that she had supported him during this time; that she was the sister of the mother- of the child, the mother dying When the child was about five months of áse; that she had the custody of said child until recently, when Clifton Nickle, the father of the child, forcibly took the child from her; that at…
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