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DAVIS v. JURNEY

No. 2162.

145 A.2d 846 (1958)

Bettie H. DAVIS, Appellant, v. John C. JURNEY and Elizabeth H. Jurney, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 6, 1958.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abe M. Goldstein, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Irving B. Yochelson, Washington, D. C., Solomon Grossberg and Isadore Brill, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellees.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, the natural mother of James Michael Harbin, filed a complaint in the Domestic Relations Branch seeking custody of her nine-year-old son from appellees, Elizabeth and John Jurney. At the conclusion of a lengthy hearing lasting several days, the trial judge entered an order awarding custody of the child to the Jurneys. Assailing the court's determination on several grounds appellant asks us to reverse this order.

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