MELTON v. CONNOLLY

[No. 145, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 184 (1959)

148 A.2d 387

MELTON ET UX. v. CONNOLLY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lee Smith for the appellants.

Sidney Blum, with whom were Jacob Blum and Charles Yumkas on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Foster parents are appealing from an order giving custody of a five-year-old girl who had been in their home for four-and-a-half years to her father.

The father and mother of the little girl, Stephanie, married in 1952, after they had lived together for four years, and had two other children, one born in 1949, the other in 1951. Stephanie was born in July, 1953. In 1955 the mother sued for divorce and, although...

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