Harris v. Harris
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
LIVINGSTON, Justice.
This proceeding was instituted by Ethel Mae Harris for the custody of her infant son, William Jackson Harris, who is now about five years of age. Respondents are William Melford Harris, father of the minor, and W. J. Harris and Eifie Harris, the paternal grandparents of said minor.
The cause was tried in the Circuit Court, in Equity, of DeKalb County, and was submitted for final decree on the pleadings and the testimony of witnesses taken by depositions. The rule is, of course, that when a cause is tried in the court below in this manner, this Court indulges no presumption…
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