In re Lagrange

Wingate, S.

The present, like many other proceedings affecting human relations, requires a determination involving potentially distressing results to one or more of the parties concerned. In this instance, however, the onus of the result, if any, rests upon the Legislature and not upon the court.

The question for determination concerns the person to whom letters of guardianship of two infants, respectively of the ages of ten and twelve years, shall issue. The applicant is a maternal aunt in whose favor the maternal grandmother has waived. Opposition is voiced by the father of the children, who…