Turner v. Turner
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Yalobusha county. Hon. Isaac T. Blount, Chancellor. Wilson P. Turner, appellee, was plaintiff or petitioner in the court below; Gertrude Turner, appellant, his wife,- was relator or defendant there. The suit was an habeas corpus proceeding for the custody of their two years old son, Wilson Hudson Turner.
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Prom the chancery court of Yalobusha county. Hon. Isaac T. Blount, Chancellor. Wilson P. Turner, appellee, was plaintiff or petitioner in the court below; Gertrude Turner, appellant, his wife,- was relator or defendant there. The suit was an habeas corpus proceeding for the custody of their two years old son, Wilson Hudson Turner. The court below awarded the child’s custody alternately tc each parent for a term of three months, providing that while the child was with one parent, the other should be permitted to visit and see it at all reasonable times. Prom a decree so awarding and providing,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
On the facts in this record, concerning which we do not care to go into detail, it is sufficient to say that we cannot concur in the decree of the learned chancellor in dividing the custody of this boy, less than two years old when this decree was entered, between his mother and his father. No child of that age should have his custody thus alternatively shifted, especially where the mother is living and a competent person to care for the child. We refrain purposely from setting out the evidence in detail, contenting ourselves simply with saying that it is abundantly shown that the father and…
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