Roy v. Sherman

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a child custody case.

In the year 1954 appellant, then Mrs. Viola Sherman, sued her husband, appellee Charles Edward Sherman, Jr., for divorce. Appellee filed an answer and cross-action. On January 7, 1955 a divorce was granted to appellee on his cross-action. Prior to the trial appellant had withdrawn her contest of her husband’s cross-action. The two minor children of the parties, a boy and a girl, aged seven and three years respectively, were placed in the care and custody of the Superintendent of the Home for Children of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at…