Simmons v. Simmons

BARKSDALE, District Judge.

This suit was instituted in a state court of South Carolina on or about July 21, 1941. At that time the plaintiff, H. Wendell Simmons, and the defendant, Louisa S. Simmons, were husband and wife. The complaint alleges: That plaintiff and defendant were married in 1932, and lived as husband and wife in Beaufort County, S. G, from that time until December, 1940; that on or about December 30, 1940, the defendant, without plaintiff’s knowledge, forcibly took their infant son, aged four years, beyond the borders of South Carolina, and continues to forcibly detain him in…