Searle v. Searle

The subject of this review is an order of the district court modifying the award of custody of a minor child of the parties previously made by the trial court in a decree of divorce entered in due course. The parties are here in the.same positions, relatively, as they appeared in the court below, and will hereinafter be designated as plaintiff and defendant.

As the result of the uncontested suit of plaintiff wife, the parties, both then residents of Craig, were finally divorced on May 31, 1944'. The decree awarded the custody of their only child, Raymond Eugene Searle, born September 17, 1941,…