Melton v. Connolly

Foster parents are appealing from an order giving custody of a five-year-old girl who had been in their home for four- and-a-half years to her father.

The father and mother of the little girl, Stephanie, married in 1952, after they had lived together for four years, and had two other children, one born in 1949, the other in 1951. Stephanie was born in July, 1953. In 1955 the mother sued for divorce and, although she was denied relief, was, in 1957, officially given custody of the children, two of whom had been with her for several years (Stephanie was with the foster parents). Several months…