Thein v. Squires

Plaintiff, divorced mother of a girl and boy, filed applications in equity against two married couples with whom the children lived the preceding five years asking modification of decrees in habeas corpus denying plaintiff’s claim to their custody and granting it to defendants. The applications were consolidated and tried to the court in May 1958. From judgment in August as prayed defendants appeal.

Plaintiff, 39 at the time of trial, and LaVern Thein are parents of the children in question, a girl, LaVerna Kay, born June 22, 1949, and a boy, Charles, born September 10, 1951. In *1151August 1953…