Cole v. Cole

Lane, V. C.

After I had determined that cross-petitioner was entitled to a decree for divorce on the ground of adultery, and had awarded the custody of the infant child, Winifred, to the father (complainant not appearing upon the hearing), application was made to open the proofs, and I heard further testimony bearing upon the permanent custody of the child. The child was brought before me as if upon habeas corpus, in aid of the exercise by this Gourt of its general jurisdiction as parens patries. The father lives with his mother, a widow of upwards of fifty years of age. The child, a girl of…