In Re Ernst

“A child is not a chattel nor subject to ownership as such.”

As 1964 has brought another change of our personnel, a little child may lead the remaining parent-minded — distinguished from child-minded — Brethren from out that legal fog into which they seem to stray when a child custody case arrives here. That child could be little Gerri Ernst. And if Gerri, armed as she is with innocence and supreme legal right, cannot get through to such Brethren as her case comes to decision, then the probate and circuit judges of Michigan — by what they have done and are now doing — ultimately will get…