Benson v. Benson

The appellee, Wallace H. Benson, was granted a divorce in the court below. This appeal questions only that part of the decree that awarded him the custody of the couple’s three children, a boy and two girls, aged ten, eight, and six. It is contended that it would be to the children’s best interest for them to be in their mother’s care.

Wallace Benson and Attie Lou . Strickland were married in 1951, both being in their teens. They had grown up in Calhoun county, but during the eleven years of their married life they lived in Camden, where Wallace worked for a paper company. In June of 1961…