State Ex Rel. Tuttle v. Hanson

The court commissioner did not find that the father was unfit to have the custody of his ten-year-old child, but determined that it would be for the child’s best interests that she remain in the home of the grandparents. Such determination of best interests appears to have been based wholly on considerations that the child had lived with the mother in the home of its grandparents from the age of eight months until the mother remarried, and that the child continued to live in the grandparents’ home after the mother had remarried and had removed from there, the mother, however, retaining legal…