Morgan v. Shelly

Citations

• 111 Miss. 868
• 72 So. 700

Syllabus

<p>Habeas Corpus. Custody and control of child.. Right of father.</p> <p>While it will be presumed to be for the best interest of the child to be with its father unless his unfitness or abandonment of the child be shown, yet where the facts disclose the unfitness of the father to rear the child and that he absolutely abandoned his child when it was a few days old, he cannot after twelve years of desertion of his offspring successfully invoke the aid of the courts to restore to him the custody of his child which he had failed to recognize until it had been nurtured and reared by foster parents and had become, through associations and attachment for all purposes, their own child.</p>