Sawyer v. Lawrence

CARR,' Judge.

This appeal is based on a petition filed in the court below for the custody of two minor children, a boy aged four and a girl aged twenty months. The petitioner is the father of the children and the respondent is their maternal grandmother. The trial judge denied the prayer of the petition and awarded the custody of the minors to the respondent. This appeal followed.

It appears without conflict in the evidence that, during the marital life of the father and mother of the children, their residential permanency was uncertain and disturbed. They moved from city to city several times.…