Baker v. Baker

Mr. Special Justice Davis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The complainant, an infant 14 years of age, suing through her mother as next friend, seeks a decree against her father, the defendant, for the future support of the minor.

The bill alleges that complainant’s father and mother have been divorced; that in the divorce decree complainant’s custody was awarded to her father, the defendant, in 1929. This custody was later changed by a decree of the domestic relations court of Knox county, so as to award the care and custody of complainant to her mother.

The bill charges that the defendant is…