GUARDIANSHIP OF CARRICK v. STODDARD

No. 49749.

98 N.W.2d 315 (1959)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP OF Cynthia Ann CARRICK, a minor, Marjorie O. Carrick, Appellant, v. Ernestine E. STODDARD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 22, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joy & Wifvat, Perry, and Willis & Willis, Perry, for appellant.

Batschelet & Thompson, Guthrie Center, for appellee.


OLIVER, Justice.

The basic issue in this case is the guardianship, which carries with it the custody of the person, of Cynthia Ann Carrick, born October 19, 1956. Cynthia, frequently called Cindy, was the only child of Clyde and Martha (Marty) Carrick who lost their lives July 2, 1958, in a flood in western Iowa. The contest over the guardianship of Cindy is nominally between Marjorie O. Carrick, the adoptive mother of Cindy's father, Clyde Carrick, and Ernestine...

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