Collings v. Collings

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DAVIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a post-divorce decree child custody order entered May 14, 1969, in the above-entitled proceeding.

The divorce decree, which granted custody of Robert, then eight years old, to the plaintiff, was entered July 3, 1968, on the ground of mental cruelty. It found that the plaintiff was a fit and proper person to have the care, custody and control of Robert, and unconditionally awarded such custody to her.

The defendant, the former husband of the plaintiff and the father of the child, Robert, filed a petition wherein…