State Ex Rel. Eastham v. Traylor

KENNON, Justice.

This is a contest between the father and maternal grandparents for the custody of a boy born on March 8, 1941 whose mother died on December 15, 1944, while the father, (relator herein) was serving with the U. S. Navy in the Pacific.

Relator left his wife and four months old son in Natchitoches, La., in July 1941, to seek employment in Colorado. The family was reunited again at the end of 1941 and during the early part of 1942, at relator’s mother’s home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Later in 1942, the parties discussed a divorce but took no action. The child and its mother went to…