Pierce v. Pierce

This appeal is from an order denying the appellant’s petition to modify a decree of divorce, which awarded the respondent the care and custody of two minor children. On March 30, 1905, a decree was entered in the *680superior court of Whitman county, divorcing the appellant and the respondent and awarding to respondent the sole custody of the two minor children, Roy Elliott Pierce and John Edgar Pierce. Thereafter, in July, 1905, a motion was filed for the modification of the decree in regard to the custody of the children. This motion was denied upon the ground, among others, that the appellant…