Swager v. Swager

This case involves a preliminary chancery decree awarding the temporary custody of a child pending a hearing on the merits. We hold that an interlocutory appeal allowed from it was improvidently granted.

James E. Swager, appellant, and Mrs. Betty Lockhart Swager, appellee, were married in 1951. They had one child, Carolyn, born in October, 1953, and now about nine years of age. Mr. Swager obtained a divorce from the appellee in 1957, in a Louisiana district court, which awarded custody of the child to James Swager, with visitation rights in the mother. The father and Carolyn later moved to…