Casteel v. Mandel

DIXON, Chief Justice.

Appellant Albert Dale Casteel, presently a resident of El Paso, Texas, filed this suit May 27, 1966 for care and custody of his two children, one a girl nine years of age, the other a boy seven years of age. The children have lived with their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Rachel Sellers Mandel, appellee herein, in her home in Sherman, Texas since August 1, 1962. Appellant alleges that at that time they were brought to appellee merely for a visit while he was ill.

They are the children of appellant and his first wife, who was killed in an automobile accident in December 1959.…