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TRENTON v. CHRIST

[No. 226, September Term, 1957.]

216 Md. 418 (1958)

140 A.2d 660

TRENTON ET UX. v. CHRIST ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 25, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Edmund Manges for the appellants.

William L. Wilson for the appellees.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and GRAY, J., Chief Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

GRAY, J., by special assignment, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant is the father of a ten-year-old girl who now lives with her maternal grandparents in Cumberland, Maryland. This suit was instituted by him to procure the custody of his daughter after the child's mother had been killed in an automobile accident. His suit was resisted by the grandparents on the ground that the best interest of the child dictated...

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