Hicks v. Hicks

This is a petition to modify a decree which was entered in this cause March 28, 1938, and which divorced Mr. and Mrs. Hicks and gave her custody of their four-year-old daughter, Regina Ann. The child has been in the care of her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Eula Pickle, since before the divorce. The petition brought, in Mrs. Pickle as a1 defendant, and prayed -that the former decree be so modified as to give petitioner, the father, custody of the child.

The petition was heard before the Honorable E. F. Langford, the same judge who had entered the original decree. He regarded that decree as…