WILKEY v. GLISSON


303 S.W.2d 266 (1957)

Dorothy Mae WILKEY, Appellant, v. James Edward GLISSON, Jr., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Freeland, Paducah, for appellant.

Roy G. Garrison, R. L. Myre, Sr., Garrison, Myre & Myre, Paducah, for appellee.


WADDILL, Commissioner.

Appellee, James Edward Glisson, Jr., was granted an absolute divorce from the appellant, Dorothy Mae Wilkey, on August 5, 1955. The decree granted custody of their five year old daughter to the appellant. Subsequently, on appellee's motion and following a hearing, the Chancellor modified the decree by awarding appellee custody of the child. The appeal is from that order.

At the hearing appellant admitted that while she was separated...

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