BOONE v. DOWNEY

No. 46568.

259 So.2d 710 (1972)

M.G. BOONE v. Mrs. Sadie C. DOWNEY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurel G. Weir, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Robert E. Covington, Jr., Quitman, for appellee.


INZER, Justice:

This is an appeal by M.G. Boone from a decree of the Chancery Court of Clarke County awarding the custody of his five minor children to appellee, Mrs. Sadie C. Downey, the maternal grandmother. We affirm.

The children involved in this proceeding were born to the marriage of appellant and Pauline Boone, deceased. These parties were divorced by a decree of the Chancery Court of Clarke County on January 26, 1970, and the court awarded the custody...

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