Elsman v. Elsman

On Merits

Cooke & Stoddard and Samuel Platt, for Appellant: Thatcher & Woodbv,rn and Forman & Forman, for Respondent:

OPINION

By the Court, Coleman, C. J.:

This is a proceeding involving the custody of an infant child.

The parties were intermarried on October 22, 1923, and lived for some years at Great Neck, on Long Island, New York. The father, to whom we will refer as plaintiff, according to often-repeated and undenied statements, is a man of great wealth.' He owned a home on Long Island which cost a handsome sum. While living there the infant in question was born, on August 7, 1924. Some…