In re Kinjuro Muranaka

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PETERS, C. J.

This is a controversy between a mother and a father over the custody of their daughter now about the age of fifteen years. The parents were married in Japan, and emigrated to this country about fourteen years ago leaving their daughter, then about one year of age, with her maternal grandmother. In 1910 the parents were divorced in Hawaii at the instance of the mother, upon the ground of failure to provide. The libel for divorce made no reference to the daughter and the decree is silent as to her future custody. The mother later remarried. The grandmother…