Brown v. Brown

RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.

The special appeal is from an order of the District Court denying appellant’s motion that certain matters be not referred to the Domestic Relations Commissioner for investigation and report.

Appellant and appellee are husband and wife, who have been living apart since before this suit was begun. In July, 1940, he instituted it, seeking only the custody of their six-year-old child. The wife answered, praying custody. On August 16, 1940, the court awarded custody to her pendente lite, with provision for the father to see the child at suitable times and that neither…