50 W. Va. 244 | W. Va. | 1901
This case involves no difficult principles of law; but it does involve one of the saddest and most trying duties of the many sad and trying duties which fall upon judges. It is a contest between the father of two little children and the mother of their dead mother for their possession. Samuel G. Fletcher and Virginia, his wife, nee Hickman, were married on the 30th of December, 1891. They had three children, Curtis L., Lora and
As by the old law, as well as by the rule still prevailing, in a general sense the father is the natural guardian of a child, and liable for its support, and he was entitled to its custody, even against the other author of its being, the mother, as a general rule. As between the father and mother the cqurts have in later days considerably mollified that old rule, so that now the right
Reversed.'