Lawson v. Lawson

The sole issue in this case involves the custody of two infants, Linda Ann Lawson, ten years of age, and Patricia, nine years, the daughters of Levi Owen Lawson and Edna Hancock Lawson. Levi Owen Lawson having died during the pendency of this appeal, the controversy is between the mother of the children on the one side and the uncle of the children, J. A. Lawson and his wife, Rebecca Lawson, on the other.

On August 3, 1951, Edna Hancock Lawson instituted a suit for divorce against her husband, Levi Owen Lawson, in the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond. In her bill she alleged that…