In re the Guardianship of Wells
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered April 30, 1910, granting a petition for the appointment of guardians, upon findings of the court, in a contest for the custody of a minor.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
This is a controversy over the custody of Max Leander Wells, a minor, now three years old, son of Max Wells and Elsie Priest Wells, both deceased. The father died June 22, 1907, at Portland, Oregon. The mother then came to Seattle to the home of F. Boyd Wells and Mrs. Clarissa Ruelle, brother and sister of the deceased father *519and husband, where the child was born July 12, 1907. Thereafter the mother lived part of the time with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ruelle, and part of the time with her parents, Leander J. Priest and wife, at Kingston, in Kitsap county. She was employed as a teacher or tutor…
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