Chandler v. Chandler

— This is an appeal by the husband from a judgment granting respondent wife’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and custody of the parties’ two minor children.

During most of the ten years of their marriage and at the time of their separation, the matrimonial domicile was in Arkansas. Appellant husband alleges that respondent wife developed an emotional problem and deprived him of the opportunity to live with or to visit the children. As a result, in March, 1958, appellant filed a complaint in the Arkansas chancery court for Benton county praying that he be awarded custody of the children.…