State Ex Rel. Brode v. Hatcher

97 So.2d 422 (1957)

233 La. 636

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Chester A. BRODE

v.

Embry HATCHER.

No. 43381.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 28, 1957.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1957.

Obier & Middleton, Plaquemine, for relator and appellant.

Ponder & Ponder, Amite, for respondents-appellees.

HAMLIN, Justice ad hoc.

This matter involves a controversy over the custody of the minor, Emmie Sue Brode, born in 1946 of the union of Chester A. Brode and Mamie Sue Hatcher Brode, whose marital domicile was at Plaquemine, Louisiana, Iberville Parish.

Mrs. Brode died on April 5, 1956, from a lingering illness of…