Mayer v. Mayer

Plaintiff, the mother, appeals from an order of the divorce court that heard her divorce petition and awarded custody of the parties’ minor child to the defendant, his father. Plaintiff also appeals from a subsequent order of the court refusing to grant her petition to modify the custody order and award her custody of the child. Both appeals were consolidated in this Court for oral argument. Because we reverse the judgment concerning custody of the minor child in the divorce action, we do not reach the court’s decision in the motion to modify.

The court below made findings of fact on its own…