Rice v. Rice

In January, 1926, a decree was entered granting plaintiff an absolute divorce from defendant on the ground of cruelty. The custody of Thelma, the only child of the parties, then two and a half years old, was denied plaintiff at that time and given to defendant’s sister, Mrs. Anderson, until the May term of court of that year, the decree providing “that the custody shall not be changed without giving both parties to this action the right to submit testimony as to the fitness of the parties to have the care and custody of said child as though the care, custody and control of said child had not…