Wheeler v. Lowell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from ' Probate. Heard at the September Term, 1916, Washington County, Fish, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The opinion states the facts. The question of notice, here raised, is purely statutory and involves no constitutional considerations.
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Appeal from ' Probate. Heard at the September Term, 1916, Washington County, Fish, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The opinion states the facts. The question of notice, here raised, is purely statutory and involves no constitutional considerations. Gibson, Apt., 154 Mass. 378; Waldron v. Woodman, 58 N. H. 15; Hanley v. Bussell, 63 N. H. 614. The word “parent,” as used in P. S. 3146, means the parent who is the natural guardian and has the care and custody of the person of the minor. Ferguson v. Phoenix Mut. Life. Ins. Co., 84 Yt. 350, 359. The plaintiff did not…
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
Martin 0. “Wheeler and Lilla M. “Wheeler were husband and wife and had born to them a son Raymond A. Wheeler. November 14, 1913, Lilla M. Wheeler obtained from Martin C. a decree of absolute divorce. At that time the son Raymond was three years and some months old, and by the decree- of the county court that granted the divorce, the care and custody of the person of the child Raymond were entrusted to the mother Lilla M. Wheeler, now Lilla M. Lowell. Shortly after the divorce on petition of the mother the probate court appointed her guardian of the property of the boy Raymond. The father had…
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