Vosburg

This case is before ns on a motion of respondent to dismiss three appeals of appellant—from the judgment, from an order denying a motion for a new trial, and from an order made subsequently to the judgment modifying the decree as to the care and custody of the minor children of the parties. The action is for divorce brought by the wife against the husband, and was commenced in the superior court of Los Angeles county in this state, where the parties resided. By the judgment plaintiff was granted a divorce, and it was decreed that of the three minor children of the parties, plaintiff should have the custody of the two younger and defendant the custody of the eldest, a son named Boydon. It was found by the court that before the commencement of the action defendant had taken the boy Boydon to the state of New York upon a promise to plaintiff that he would return the child in the fall of the year 1898, hut that he did not comply with the promise and had kept him in Hew York; and it was decreed that defendant should bring said boy back to Los Angeles and keep him within the jurisdiction of the court, and allow the plaintiff to have his society at certain stated times, and that upon…