IN RE J----

No. 8052.

357 S.W.2d 197 (1962)

In the interest of J____, a minor, under the age of seventeen years.

Springfield Court of Appeals, Missouri.

May 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos Wight, Ewing, Ewing, Ewing, Carter & Wright, Nevada, for appellant.

Gordon R. Boyer, Lamar, for respondent.


RUARK, Presiding Judge.

As an all too frequent by-product of a child marriage, this case reaches us as an appeal from the judgment and order of the juvenile court in respect to the custody of a little girl, not quite three and a half years old at time of the hearing.

The facts historically are: J and B were married June 1, 1957. At that time J (herein referred to as the father) was approximately nineteen years of age. B was fourteen. The child was born February...

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