Watkins v. Terrell

Jenkins, Presiding Justice.

1. In this contest for the custody of a girl of four years, on a habeas-corpus petition by the father against the parents of the deceased mother, and involving an alleged “gift” by the father to such grandparents and the comparative fitness of the parties to have the custody, the legal questions are controlled by the recent rulings in Bond v. Norwood, 195 Ga. 383 (24 S. E. 2d, 289), and cit. Where a father relinquishes the custody and control of his minor child to another, the latter, if a suitable and proper person to have such custody and control, is legally…