Nailling v. Evans

RENFRO, Justice.

On August 13, 1953, the appellants herein, Mary Eloise Nailling and husband, Tom H. Nailling, filed a petition in the Juvenile Court of Dallas County requesting that Mrs. Nailling’s two minor daughters by a former marriage be adjudicated to be dependent and neglected children and that she be awarded their custody. The father of the children, Jeff Edward Evans, of Houston County, appellee herein, was named as an adverse party.

Appellants alleged that the children were dependent and neglected children because Evans, their father, with whom they resided, maintained an apartment in…