State Ex Rel. Aldridge v. Aldridge

L©es, C.

The right to the custody of Winifred Aldridge, a little girl years old, is asserted by her paternal grandmother against the child’s mother. To obtain the custody, the grandmother sued out a writ of habeas corpus, upon which there was a hearing before the court commissioner of Steele county, who awarded the child to the grandmother. The mother appealed to this court, where the case was submitted upon the evidence received by the court- commissioner and additional evidence taken by a referee appointed by this court.

The child’s parents were married in November, 1916, and thereafter…