In Re the Guardianship of Kneeland

This is a contest waged for the custody of a girl child of the approximate age of nine and one-half years. The contest is between the appellant, Frances Zioncheck, the child’s maternal grandmother, on the one side, and the respondent, O. F. Kneeland, the child’s father, on the other.

The respondent intermarried with the child’s mother in November, 1919. In 1927, the child’s mother brought an action for divorce against the respondent, and, on March 24, 1927, obtained an interlocutory decree, in which the custody of the child was awarded to the mother until the further order of the court. The…