Moore v. Moore

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This action involves the custody of the boy child of the parties, who was about two and one-half years old at the time of the judgment under appeal which was rendered on August 16, 1957. The trial court awarded the custody of the child to the mother, now respondent, and the father appealed.

The parties were married in February 1954 in Oklahoma, which was the home of respondent, where appellant, a native of this State, was on military duty. Afterward they first lived in Oklahoma for a brief period, then in Birmingham, Alabama, and finally in Georgetown and Conway, in this…