Satterfield v. Satterfield

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree overruling demurrer to a petition filed after a decree of divorce between the parents whereby petitioner, who is the father, seeks a modification of the decree so as to award the permanent custody and control of their infant child. The court to which the petition is addressed is the court which rendered the decree of divorce dated August 31, 1945. In that decree it is provided that the infant “be given to complainant (the wife) until the respondent is discharged from the Navy, and then the court will pass upon the permanent custody of the child.…