Favre v. MEDDERS

This is a child custody case, involving an appeal from a decree in a habeas corpus proceeding, in which petitioners (appellees) were awarded custody of a ten-month-old baby girl.

The child, Kathleen Allison Medders, was born on October 2, 1959. Her parents were Yardaman J. Medders and Mrs. Imogene Kuhn Medders. At the time of her birth, the parents were separated. On June 6, 1960, the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County entered a decree in a divorce action filed by the father, with a cross-bill by the mother, in which he denied both of them a divorce. However, the…