Owens v. Watkins

Reid, Chief Justice.

A question of the right to the custody of a four-year-old child arose in an action for divorce pending in Fulton superior court, and this question was referred to the juvenile court for determination, as authorized by the Code, § 24-2402 (d). A judgment was rendered awarding the child to the father and the mother thereupon served the judge of the juvenile court with notice of her intention to certiorari the case to the superior court and simultaneously filed with him a pauper affidavit. Thereafter, and before the child was actually taken from her custody under the…