Classic v. Burgess

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a child custody case. The contestants are the mother of the child and the paternal grandparents.

The parents were divorced March 8, 1951 and the child, a little boy about three and a half years old, was awarded to the paternal grandparents, D. G. Burgess and wife Omega Burgess. Since the divorce, both parents have remarried. The mother, formerly Ann Burgess, is now the wife of Dennis H. Classic.

On April 14, 1952 the mother, joined by her husband, filed suit for change of custody, alleging that conditions had changed since the divorce judgment and that it was to the…