Riley v. Vest

This is a child custody case. B. J. and Wanda Vest were the parents of- two infant children at the time of Mrs. Vest’s death in January of 1961. The father had been away in military service, and for some time before her death Mrs. Vest had been living with the children in the home of her parents, the appellants. After their mother’s death the children remained with the appellants, their maternal grandparents, for several months. Their father then picked them np and took them to the home of his sister, the appellee Pauline Horton, and her husband.

In August of 1961 the appellants filed the…