Chilcutt v. Baker

DOERNER, Commissioner.

Plaintiff appeals from an order granting only in part her motion to modify that portion of a divorce decree respecting the custody of the parties’ children. This is the second time the matter has reached this court, Chilcutt v. Baker, Mo.App., 355 S.W. 2d 338.

*856A brief résumé of the prior events will prove helpful to an understanding of the present proceedings. Plaintiff Verla Chil-cutt, then Verla Baker, filed suit for divorce on February 27, 1960, charging her then husband, defendant Joseph Baker, with general indignities. She prayed for a decree granting her custody of…