Weger v. Purcell

This is an action to modify custody of three-year-old Janet Marie Weger. Her mother died within a week of Janet’s birth. Leslie Weger, Janet’s father, placed the child with his sister, Eva Purcell, and initiated proceedings to have Eva named guardian of Janet. Leslie remarried some time later and sought to have the guardianship terminated and custody of Janet returned to him. The trial court ordered the child returned and the guardianship terminated. Eva Purcell appeals from that order.

The issue before this court is: was it against the manifest weight of the evidence to modify custody and…