Harris v. Garmon

Felton, Justice.

1. In this habeas corpus action brought by a father against his divorced wife to obtain permanent custody of the parties’ minor son, the trial court’s judgment awarding custody to the plaintiff father was authorized by evidence that, since the time of their divorce, the defendant mother had had two illegitimate children, was subsisting only on welfare payments plus a small wage from her employment in a restaurant, that the Juvenile Court of Floyd County had investigated her circumstances and apparently found them to be not in the best interest of the child, and that the…