Oliver v. Oliver

New cases give us more soul-searching concern than those involving the custody of children. The facts in the instant appeal are complicated and conflicting, but the issue is simple. We are satisfied that the following chronological statement may be accurately and fairly gleaned from the record before us.

In January of 1945, Thurman Wade Oliver, an American citizen and officer in the United States Army, met Anna M. Isabella Schinina, an Italian subject, at a Red Cross dance in Rome, Italy. He was then twenty-eight years old and she was twenty. Anna is the -only child of the Marchesa di Sant’…