VAN METER v. MURPHY

No. S-424.

287 So.2d 740 (1973)

Robert Emmet VAN METER, Sr., and Lillian Van Meter, Appellants, v. Charles Martin MURPHY et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Stallings, Jr. of Stallings & Marr, Jacksonville, for appellants.

Charles Martin Murphy, and Robert J. Horne, Jacksonville, for appellees.


SPECTOR, Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of an interlocutory order awarding temporary custody of minor children to the Division of Family Services, a state agency, for placement in a foster home.

Appellant, Robert Emmet Van Meter, Sr., and his wife are the paternal grandparents of the children, ages four and five, whose custody is involved. The children's natural parents have been shown to be clearly unfit, the mother having distinct mental problems which...

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