WENDEL v. WENDEL

No. 50341.

109 N.W.2d 432 (1961)

Kenneth H. WENDEL, Appellee, v. Shirley M. WENDEL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. L. Boomhower, Mason City, for appellant.

Mason & Stone, Mason City, for appellee.


LARSON, Justice.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion when in an action for divorce it granted custody of William Dean Wendel, an adopted three and a half year old child of the couple, to the plaintiff Kenneth H. Wendel.

Defendant Shirley M. Wendel admits she was at fault and that such fault was sufficient with the disclosed consequences to entitle plaintiff to the divorce. She strongly contends, however, that her...

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