Kern v. Lindsey

*778This is a controversy between a divorced couple over the custody and control of their thirteen-year-old son, Carroll Scott Lindsey.

Henry Dorsey Lindsey of Richmond, Virginia, and Cecelia McKenna Utsey of Columbia, South Carolina, were married in May, 1928. Their life together was begun under inauspicious circumstances. She was young, only nineteen, and had recently recovered from a nervous disorder. The husband was about thirty-three years old and had not had a successful, business career. The home in Richmond to which he took his bride and the manner in which it was furnished seems to have…