Stoddard v. Bruner

In a proper proceeding be- • fore the judge of the circuit, sitting as.chancellor, the parties contested the right to the custody of a child, a girl between 5 and 6 years of age. Appellee, the father, is a young physician in good practice in Louisiana, where he lives with his mother and an orphaned niece 14 years of age. His reputation is good; his family relations, if we may trust the uncontradicted evidence in that regard, are excellent. Appellant is the brother of the child’s mother; is a bachelor living alone in his own home or with male ■ companions at Irvington in the county of Mobile.…