State Ex Rel. Pitre v. Lefort

ODOM, Justice.

Relator is the father and respondent the maternal grandfather of Lillian Pitre, a girl now about six years old. The mother of the child is dead. The child was at the time this suit was filed and is now in the custody and care of its grandfather. Relator brought the present suit to have the child delivered into his custody and keeping. The trial judge, after hearing the case, refused relator’s demands, ordered that the child be left in the custody and care of its grandfather and relator appealed.

The child involved was conceived out of marriage, the mother, Rose Lefort, being…