Mallory v. Edmondson

Allan W. Horne, Special Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an Order of the Jefferson County Chancery Court adjudicating custody of Nancy Mallory, an adult incompetent person, and ordering Appellants to return Nancy to Appellee, her grandmother and guardian of her estate and person, and from whose custody Appellants had forceably taken Nancy. Appellants James H. Mallory and Theola Mallory are Nancy’s parents and Carolyn Mallory is her sister. At issue here is whether the Chancery Court had jurisdiction over the Appellants and Nancy for the purpose of adjudicating custody and whether the…