Pruitt v. Butterfield

Duckworth, Justice.

O. J. Pruitt filed a petition alleging that his wife, Mrs. R. L. Butterfield, instituted habeas corpus proceedings in Fulton superior court for the custody of their two named minor children; that on July 15, 1938, judgment was rendered, awarding custody of the children to the father, a resident of this State, but providing that the mother, who was a resident of the State of Florida, should have custody of the children for thirty days during the summer of each year; that the portion of the judgment giving custody to the non-resident mother is void, in that the court by such…