1. The welfare of the child is the controlling element on an application for custody.
2. The fact that the petitioning maternal grandparents are in a position to give the child more in a material way than is the respondent father does not mean, however, that the child should go to them.
The welfare of the child must be considered with due regard only to the father's means and station in life.
3. Grandparents are not entitled to the custody of an infant as against the natural father, who has shown no intent to abandon his offspring and who, from his past conduct, may be expected to bring up the child in accordance with his means and station in life.
4. Care of the infant awarded unconditionally to the father; petitioners' application for custody denied.
PER CURIAM.
The decree under review will be affirmed, for the reasons stated in the opinion of Advisory Master Grosman.
For affirmance — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, PARKER, CASE, BODINE, DONGES, PERSKIE, PORTER, COLIE, WELLS, RAFFERTY, HAGUE, THOMPSON, DILL, JJ. 13.
For reversal — None.
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