In re Cuneen

Clerks, Justice.

The common law, no doubt, recognizes the paramount right of the father to the custody of his infant children ; but, while the courts still maintian his right in preference to all others (other things being equal), they will not deliver the children to his custody, when to do so will be manifestly to their detriment and discomfort. I think the father in this *517case, in Ms intercourse with Ms family, has evinced a suspicious and splenetic temper, which could not fail to make them exceedingly unhappy, and to pervert the dispositions of his children. He, indeed, contradicts many of…