In Re Guardianship of Kerr

This is an appeal from an order appointing a guardian of the person of the respondent, Louise Elizabeth Kerr, a minor of the age of eighteen years.

She is the daughter of Andrew L. and Leonora Kerr, who in September, 1923, were divorced. By the terms of the divorce decree the care and custody of respondent, then four years old, was awarded to her mother, but she was maintained and educated out of a monthly allowance paid by her father. Subsequently each parent married again, the mother having become Mrs. Wallace. For a considerable period prior to 1936 the relations between the mother and…