Ellison Ex Rel. Nardicchio v. Platts

This case involves the question of the custody of a twenty-month-old child, the contest being between the young mother and the mother’s aunt and uncle with whom the child has resided and been cared for since her birth out of wedlock. Cases of this character tear at the heart strings of all normal human beings and are recognized as perhaps the most difficult and baffling to the courts of all the matters with which they have to deal. Because of the inherent sentimentality of the human heart, courts, necessarily composed of men endowed with ordinary attributes, have found it imperative to brace…