Christian v. Christian

This appeal presents but one question: the right to custody of two minor children, one son born in June, 1949, the other in September, 1953.

As this court said in Warnecke v. Warnecke, 28 Wn. (2d) 259, 271, 182 P. (2d) 699 (1947):

“Hardships will necessarily follow any decree that could be herein rendered; and justice demands that, if possible, they be distributed so as to. bear lightest on the unoffending party.”

The trial court found that the wife had been guilty of adultery, and having denied it, committed perjury. Finding that the husband had not been guilty of cruel treatment towards his…