Edwards v. Edwards

This is an appeal from a divorce decree granting plaintiff a divorce from defendant and the custody of their only child, a son then fifteen months old. The decree also gives plaintiff the right to take the child to Australia and there live with her mother.

While the defendant concedes that the court below was right in giving the mother custody of their boy, he claims that it erred in conferring on her the right to take the child beyond the continental limits of the United States, contending that it will be contrary to their son’s welfare to do so. That is the sole question before us.

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