Conrad v. Fountain

The parties herein were divorced on June 7, 1946, the proved ground for divorce being the habitual drunken ness of the wife. By that decree the custody of their two children was granted to the father, but with a provision that their immediate care should be in the hands of their maternal grandmother, the fact being that the father was and is permanently hospitalized because of a progressive paralysis, rendering him unable to care for the children personally.

Upon the decree, of the divorce and the loss by it of any :part in the custody of her children, the mother immediately broke from the…