In Re Shaheen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WolesKeil, J.

The appeal in this case is from an order of the court of chancery upon advice of an advisory master, awarding cus tody of an infant child to its father, Edward Shaheen, and to Mr. and Mrs. William J. McCarthy, two unrelated strangers with whom the father proposed to live.

The proofs are meager, the hearing having been informal, without submission to a stenographic record, and the facts are elicited mainly from what is designated as a supplemental state of case, consisting of a summary of the evidence.

It appears that the couple, who lived…