Roebuck v. Hooie

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

This case involves the very delicate and difficult question as to the custody of a child, a girl now nine years of age. In June, 1944, on a bill by the husband J. P. Hooie seeking divorce from his wife Carrie Daphenc Hooie on the ground of adultery, the judge of the Law and Equity Court of Lauderdale County, exercising equity jurisdiction, granted a decree of divorce and awarded to the father the custody of the child. The wife was then living in Georgia and the decree was rendered on a decree pro confesso and testimony in support of the averments of the bill. But the…