Lewis v. Cushing

KEITH, Justice.

The natural mother appeals from a judgment, based upon a jury verdict, which denied her suit for the custody of her three minor children. The initial tragedy of a teen-age marriage has now been compounded to involve the lives of not only these three unfortunate victims, but new spouses and children born of a second marriage of the father. When the father, David, was nineteen years old, he married the appellant, Henry Etta Lewis (known in our record as “Penny”), then of the tender age of sixteen years. Enlisting in the Air Force in 1960, some five years after the marriage, David…