C v. B

STONE, Judge.

This is an appeal by B- (hereinafter referred to as the mother) from that portion of the decree in a divorce suit by C- (hereinafter referred to as the father) which awarded to the father care and custody of K- (hereinafter referred to as the child), their minor daughter about 71/2 years of age at the time of trial and now 8½ years of age.

The father, then 19, and the mother, then 17, first took their marriage vows, “till death do us part,” on January 25, 1953. Before their child entered this world about nine months later, the father had gone into military service. Following his…