Meinhardt v. Meinhardt

Knutson, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court amending a divorce decree so as to award custody of two minor children to defendant.

Plaintiff and defendant were married August 15, 1953. At that time defendant was 16 years of age and plaintiff, 20. They had two daughters, one bom on April 23, 1954, and the other on October 18, 1955. Plaintiff entered the armed services of the United States, and, after his return, trouble developed between the parties culminating in a suit for divorce brought by plaintiff in 1957. The parties entered into a written stipulation in which…