Holden v. Smith

On April 23, 1923, L. S. Smith, the grandfather of Susan, Smith, a minor twelve years of age, filed a petition with the circuit judge of the district in which Pearl River county is situated, alleging that Monroe Smith is the father of Susie Smith, now twelve years of age, and that he had been for five or six years a widower, charged with the support of this little girl and her younger sister, ten years of age; that, when Monroe Smith was left a widower, he placed the child Susie in care of his sister, Mrs. Mitchell, and that he had furnished her with necessaries as far as he was able to do…