Johnson v. Cook

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

This appeal submits for our determination a most delicate question, and one, that had our duty not imperatively demanded, we would have been glad to have escaped. It is this: To which one of the party litigants should the custody and control of Ralph Cook, Jr., an infant five years of age, be adjudged under the facts disclosed by the record? They are these: Seland Cook and the appellee and defendant below, Liza Cook, were and are the parents of Ralph Cook, Sr. — the latter with a brother, Sherman Cook, and the parents of both composed the members…