Pearce v. Pearce

The propriety of a commitment for contempt and of a modification of a divorce decree by which the custody of children was changed, are questioned on this appeal.

We are here concerned with the aftermath of a divorce action in which the trial court found that the plaintiff wife, Veva Marie Pearce, had no grounds for divorce, but awarded a divorce to the defendant husband, Leo E. Pearce, on his cross-complaint.

The wife, however, was given the custody of the daughter, Judith, who was then (November 17, 1948) seven years old. The permanent custody of the son, John, who was then four years old, was…