Stone v. Crofton

Appellee instituted suit against W. C. Stone, in the Howard Chancery Court, to obtain the permanent custody of her son, who was about ten years of age. D. E. Stone, the father of the boy, intervened, and by proper pleadings issue was joined as to ■ which of the three, D. E. Stone, the father, W. C. Stone, the grandfather, or appellee, the mother, was entitled to his custody.

Appellee and her husband, D. E. Stone, were divorced in 1917, and the custody of their boy, then four years of age, was awarded to W.. C. Stone. At that time W. C. Stone owned and resided upon 320 acres of land in Black…