Irvin v. Irvin

RUARK, Presiding Justice.

This is an appeal by a plaintiff-mother from a judgment denying her motion to modify a divorce decree which gave custody of their minor son to the defendant-father.

The parties were married in 1956. At that time plaintiff had a girl child by a former marriage. The child here involved, Royce Wade, was born later that year. Apparently both plaintiff and defendant worked,- and the defendant’s mother kept Royce at least a part of the time. In June 1959 plaintiff left the defendant, taking Royce with her, and filed suit for divorce. In the interim before the hearing in the…