Higginbotham v. Lofton

HIGGINS, Justice.

The mother petitioned the district judge to modify the original judgment of the court in which she was granted a divorce and her minor son awarded, to its father, the defendant, by granting to her the custody of the child on the ground that the father was morally unfit to care for the child and that she was a person of good moral character and in a position to care for it and give it a good home.

The defendant resisted the requested amendment of the judgment for the reason that just the converse of the alleged situation was true.

There was judgment awarding temporary custody of…