Mayfield v. Haggard

EDWARD P. HILL, Justice.

The judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted awarded the custody of two children to their grandmother, the appellee Anna Mae Haggard, and allowed an attorney fee to her attorney, David L. Van Zant. We reverse.

The appellee Robert Lee Mayfield is the natural father of the younger child and the adoptive parent of the older one. The mother of both children was Carol Haggard, now deceased. The appellee is the mother of Carol.

The older child, William Anthony (Skippy), whose custody is in controversy, was born May 28, 1959, to Carol’s marriage to a man by the name of…