Krauthoff v. Krauthoff

Herein we are asked to exercise our jurisdiction as a court of chancery in the adjudication of an exceedingly difficult, embarassing, and important question — one that affects' the most sacred feelings and reaches the profoundest depths of the human heart: — which of two separated parents shall he awarded the custody of their child. It is an unwelcome task fraught with heavy responsibility. In its performance, however careful and sympathetic we may he, we must walk with heavy tread into the very *152sanctum sanctorum of parental affection, and, laying hands upon the jewel there enshrined, make…