Sparks v. Sparks

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

On August 10, 1944, the Circuit Court, in Equity of Colbert County, in the case of Dorothy Sparks versus Edward Cecil Sparks, entered a decree forever dissolving the bonds of matrimony then existing be tween the parties, for and on account of the cruelty of the husband. In said decree the care, custody and control of Edward Cecil Sparks, Jr., the then six years old son of the parties, was given to the father free from any interference on the part of the mother.

This proceeding was instituted on August 16, 1945, and its sole purpose was to change or modify the decree of…