Boyles v. Boyles

This is an appeal by intervenors-petitioners-appellants, John and Josephine Ashcraft, from an order of the Circuit Court of La Salle County striking a petition to hold defendant-appellee, Dennis Allen Boyles in contempt and dismissing a rule to show cause why he should not be held in contempt.

Pursuant to a divorce decree entered January 22, 1969, custody of the minor child of Dennis Allen Boyles and Linda Boyles was awarded to the mother, Linda Boyles. In March, 1971, following the death of Linda Boyles, tire child’s maternal grandparents, appellants in this case, petitioned the court as…