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IN RE MARRIAGE OF DALLY

No. 2-56762.

222 N.W.2d 478 (1974)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Claude M. DALLY and Carolyn D. Dally. Upon the Petition of Claude M. DALLY, Appellant, and concerning Carolyn D. DALLY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCarville, Bennett, Beisser & Ferguson, Fort Dodge, for appellant.

Price & McGrevey, Fort Dodge, for appellee.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and REES, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS and McCORMICK, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We are called upon in this appeal to decide, primarily, which parent will be the better custodian of a small child.

Petitioner Claude M. Dally, born January 5, 1950, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elsy Dally. The senior Dallys are religious, upstanding people and evidently quite strict in their ways. Claude tends to be strict, authoritarian, and self-centered.

Respondent Carolyn D. Dally, born September 24, 1952, is the daughter of...

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