Clements v. Schaeffer

BARROW, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding custody of a five-year-old boy to his father, Harry McClelland Schaeffer, after a hearing before the court on a writ of habeas corpus. Appellants are the maternal grandmother, with whom the boy resided following the death of his mother, and inter-veners, Ruth C. Smith, sister of the boy’s mother, and her husband.

Harry McClelland Schaeffer and Alice Clements Schaeffer were divorced in the Circuit Court of Boyd County, Kentucky, in February of 1959, and their son, Jefferson King Schaeffer, who was then two years of age, was placed in…