Watkins v. Brannon

HOLMES, Judge.

This appeal is from a decree of the Houston County Court wherein custody of a minor child was awarded to the original petitioner, the child’s natural mother. From this decree the child’s maternal grandfather has taken this appeal.

The pertinent facts appear to be as follows :

In 1971, when the original petitioner, hereinafter called the mother, was 19 years of age she bore a child out of wedlock in North Carolina. Thereafter, the appellant, the maternal grandfather, filed a petition in that state wherein it was alleged that the mother had abandoned the child and, further, that…