Rutland v. Pridgen

493 So.2d 952 (1986)

Al Bryan RUTLAND

v.

Lucy Faye PRIDGEN.

No. 55801.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 27, 1986.

Robert Glen Waddle, Jackson, for appellant.

Lee B. Agnew, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Two issues are raised by this appeal:

I. Should the chancellor have disqualified himself? and

II. Were the chancellor's findings manifestly wrong when he awarded the permanent care, custody and control of two minor children to their maternal grandmother instead of to their natural father?

Rutland is the father of Bryan…