Crews v. Sheldon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding to a father the custody of his child. Three or four years ago the father and mother were divorced, and the custody of the child was then given to the mother, with the qualifying provision that the father should have custody of it “away from the plaintiff [mother] and her family for a period of six weeks during each and every year . . . until such child arrived at the age of twenty-one years."

On January 23, 1919, the divorced mother died. Three days later her father obtained the guardianship of the…