Whitmon v. Killen

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from modification of a decree of child custody.

Plaintiffs Killen are the half-sister and brother-in-law of Susan Joy Whitmon. Defendants Whitmon are the father and step-mother of Susan. Susan is the 16-year-old daughter of O. C. Whitmon and Helen Whitmon, deceased. The father had been given custody of Susan prior to the death of her mother. She was then six years of age.

Plaintiffs filed a petition requesting that custody of Susan be removed from the father and granted to them. They alleged that Susan had become unhappy in the home of her father and…