Edwards v. Edwards

The controversy here presented involves the custody of the eleven-year-old son of divorced parents. The only legal issue presented is whether there was an abuse *50of discretion on the part of the learned trial court in denying the father’s application to have custody of the child transferred to himself. This necessitates a thorough review of the material evidence.

The plaintiff Palma O. Edwards and the defendant Franklin L. Edwards were married on November 15, 1942, and the only child by such marriage was Franklin Edwards, Tr., born in 1943.

In 1946 Mrs. Edwards instituted an action for divorce,…