Dunn v. Tiernan

FRASER, Justice.

This is a child custody case. Burnice H. Dunn, appellant, and Peggy Jean Dunn Tiernan, appellee, were married in 1945, and had two- children, Beverly Virginia Dunn, four years of age, and Syretta Ann Dunn; eight years of age. By contract in 1952 the mother granted -exclusive custody of the children to the father. On February 12, 1953, appellant was granted a divorce in Juarez, Mexico, at a time when he was living in El Paso with the children. Appellant returned to South Carolina with his children where appellee obtained them in June, 1954, after giving appellant her written…