Lewis v. Weeks

BRADLEY, Judge.

The appeal is from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Franklin County granting custody of two minor children to their natural father.

At the time appellee and his former wife were divorced, custody of the two minor children was awarded to the mother; however for sometime the children and their mother had been living in the home of their maternal grandparent, the appellant. In the first part of 1972 the mother of the two children was killed in an automobile accident. Appellee then petitioned the court for custody of the children. A hearing was held at which numerous witnesses…