Davis Appeal

How courts have described this case

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• custody denied mother living with paramour who had been unfeeling and unduly harsh with child
• Mother’s petition to obtain custody of her child denied where court found, inter alia, that her paramour “slapped the child often and on one occasion threw her up against the wall,” made her eat on the floor, and “struck her in her ear with his fist .... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Spells v. Spells
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 101×
• K.L.H. v. G.D.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-26· cited 22×
• In Re Custody of Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-17· cited 21×
• Melzer v. Witsberger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-05· cited 7×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Slater v. Slater
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-14· cited 2×
• Klh v. Gdh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-26
• Adoption of E.M.T., Jr.
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1980-05-21

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Parikh v. Parikh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 99×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Thomas v. Gillard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 25×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Bordlemay v. Bordlemay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-09-12· cited 13×