Cooley v. Cooley

This is an appeal by the defendant husband from a decree which denied a divorce to the plaintiff, granted a divorce to the defendant, divided property between the parties, awarded custody of the parties’ minor son to the plaintiff, and provided for payments to the plaintiff for the support of the minor child.

After the plaintiff filed her complaint in this ease, the defendant filed a motion for temporary custody of the son, Robbie. On June 19,1968, the court conducted a hearing on the motion. The testimony taken at this hearing showed that after the separation of the parties, Mrs. Cooley,…