Mahaffey v. Mahaffey

Appellant and appellee were formerly husband and wife. They separated on or about September 17, 1932. There is an only child, Ila May, then about ten years old. At the separation the child was left with her father; and the record indicates that appellant, the mother, although living less than thirty miles away, has seen little of the child since the separation. On April 2, 1934, the appellant, the wife, filed a bill for divorce and for the custody of the child. The bill charged the husband with habitual drunkenness, and habitual cruel and inhuman treatment. On the hearing the bill was…