Wells v. Wells

STEINFELD, Judge.

The only question before the Court is whether the custody of Henry Paul Wells, born August 8, 1961, shall be in his father and paternal grandparents or in his mother. The learned chancellor adjudged that it should be in the mother. From that judgment the father and the grandparents appeal.

James L. Wells and Lucia R. Wells (now Monti) were husband and wife. The only child of this marriage was Henry Paul Wells. During almost all of their married life they lived in the home of James’ parents, Henry H. Wells and Thelma Wells. On August 1, 1964, when it was apparent to this couple…