London v. London
London v. London
Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Mrs. London filed her application for a writ of habeas corpus in which she sought to regain physical possession of her minor child from her former husband. At the close of the trial Mrs. London filed her motion for instructed verdict, which was overruled. Thereafter, defendant filed his motion for instructed verdict or, in the alternative, that the court withdraw the case from the jury and render judgment in favor of defendant. The court granted this motion in part and withdrew the case from the jury and rendered judgment in favor of defendant on July 24, 1967, and in the judgment decreed that the custody of Sheilah Ruth London remain with defendant, Doyle E. London. To the foregoing order Mrs. London excepted and gave notice of appeal and thereafter perfected her appeal to the Corpus Christi court, and the cause is here on transfer.
Appellant in her supplemental brief, says: “We are in agreement with appel-lee that the trial judge committed no error in taking the case from the jury.” Her brief further contends that the court had the duty, as a matter of law, of placing the physical custody of said minor in Mrs. London.
Appellant’s point 1 is to the effect that the court erred in refusing to enter judgment on motion of Mrs. London for physical control of the child, because the undisputed evidence showed that the last decree affecting the custody of the minor was dated the 6th day of January 1966, and vested custody in Mrs. London, who, upon suffering a temporary mental breakdown had temporarily surrendered custody to the father during such disability and, who, upon becoming cured, brought this proceeding. We overrule this contention. Our view of the controlling factual situations is substantially without dispute. We point them out consecutively: Mrs. London was granted a divorce from her husband in the Court of Domestic Relations of Nueces County on the 29th day of March, 1961, and in this decree she was granted the care and custody of the adopted minor child, and the court fixed the support order for said minor, together with visitation rights. Thereafter various hearings were had regarding the care, custody and control of the minor, but the custody of the child remained as it was originally provided. On the 16th day of May, 1966, the court entered a decree in this cause in which he denied Doyle E. London’s application for custody of the child. As we understand
Since appellant asserts in her supplemental brief that the trial judge committed no error in taking the cause from the jury, each of her other contentions pass out of the case.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
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