Wood v. Knight

Cook, Justice.

Betty Louise Taylor Knight, formerly Betty Louise Taylor Wood, brought a petition for writ of habeas corpus against Morris C. Wood, seeking to obtain the custody of the three minor children of the parties. On the hearing the trial judge awarded the custody of the children to the mother, and the father appealed from this order.

At the time the parties were divorced in April, 1961, an agreement of the parties was made the judgment of the court, and the custody of the children was awarded to the mother. On June 12, 1962, on the petition of the father for change of custody, custody…