Lazell v. Lazell

On December 14, 1929, Lillian Lazell was granted a divorce from Lester Lazell on a cross-bill filed by her charging cruelty. Lazell, the father, was given the care and custody of Elden David La zell, then almost three years old, inasmuch as cross-plaintiff, the mother, had neither a home nor means to care for the child. The decree provided only for nominal alimony, the father being a farmer with but limited property and earning power. It, however, provided that Mrs. Lazell might keep the child at her mother’s home in Mancelona, Michigan, or some other proper place, three times a year, for…