Brown v. Brown

The Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County denied appellant, Mrs. Helen Gant Brown, a divorce from her husband, Jake N. Brown, defendantappellee. We affirm that action, and also the denial of separate maintenance. However, we have concluded that the trial court must be reversed on its award of custody of their little girl to the husband, and on its failure to adjudicate a division of the separate properties of the husband and wife.

The child, Helen Carol Brown, was born on January 1, 1955. At the time of the chancery hearing, September 1958, she was three years and eight…