27 S.E.2d 687 | Ga. | 1943
In an original contest between parents over the custody of a minor child, the sole question to be determined is what is the best interest of the child. And in determining this the court is vested with a sound discretion.
It would serve no useful purpose to detail the evidence adduced upon the hearing. Suffice it to say that each submitted evidence of their own virtues, and the vices of the other. The court awarded the custody of the child to her mother. To that judgment the father excepted.
Since the act of the legislature of 1913 (Code, § 74-107), in an original contest between parents over the custody of a minor child, the sole question to be determined is what is the best interest of the child. This alone must control the judgment of the court; and in determining this question the court is vested with a sound discretion. Turner v. Turner,
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur.