In Re Plucar's Guardianship

This is a controversy between maternal grandparents of an 8-year-old girl and her surviving father and present wife over the right to the child’s custody. The grandparents, whom we call plaintiffs, ask that they be appointed guardians of the child’s person and property and granted custody and control of her. The father and his present wife, whom we call defendants, appeared generally in the action and by answer resisted the granting of relief. Following trial, relief was denied and plaintiffs have appealed.

Since the right to the child’s custody is the principal matter in controversy it would…