Richards v. Taylor

In January, 1940, appellant brought suit against appellees in the chancery court of Jefferson county for the custody of Shirley Richards.

Appellant is the father of Shirley, who is now about six years of age and appellee, J. E. Taylor, was the uncle of Shirley’s mother, Mrs. Pansy Graves, and is the great uncle of Shirley.

Appellees took Shirley’s mother into their home and reared her until she married John Mays of Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1927. The young couple went to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to live, where a child was born to them. They separated after the birth of the child and the child…