Thames v. Thames

This suit involves the tragic consequences of a broken home where both the right to a divorce and the custody of two little girls are at issue between their natural parents. The father and mother were married on May 21, 1949, at Natchez, Mississippi, where they continued to live. On May 19, 1951, one of the little girls, Dana Jean Thames, was born, and on March 16, 1954, the other, Peggy Joan Thames, was born, both having been born of the said marriage.

Prior to June 1956, the appellant, Mrs. Lyvell Thames, sued the appellee, Doyle Thames, for a divorce on the ground of “habitual cruel and…