Gilbert v. Gilbert

WILLIAMS, Justice.

The principal question for our determination in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in its order taking custody of the almost eight-year-old son of the parties from the father and awarding same to the mother. We hold it did not.

The parties to this appeal formerly were husband and wife. The boy, with the custody of whom we are here concerned, was born of that marriage. The parties were divorced in January, 1962, when the child was some fifteen months old. Hereinafter, plaintiff in error, the father of the child, will be referred to as the father or defendant and the…