Sweeny v. Sweeny

Stephanie L. Sweeny has, on two prior occasions, appealed to this court from judgments of the trial court relative to obtaining from Clarence Sweeny, her former husband, the custody of their minor son, Patrick Sean Sweeny. Sweeny v. Sweeny, 43 Wn. (2d) 542, 262 P. (2d) 207 (1953); Sweeny v. Sweeny, 48 Wn. (2d) 872, 297 P. (2d) 610 (1956).

We will not, in this opinion, restate the sequence of events which precipitated those appeals. In the last appeal, this court determined that the trial court had not exercised its discretion by considering the evidence, as it related to Stephanie L. Sweeny’s…