Eckerson v. Mitchell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This writ of certiorari brings under review certain proceedings had before a police justice of the city of Elizabeth, at the instance of the overseer of the poor, against the prosecutor, under section 17 of the “Act concerning disorderly persons.” Pamph. L. 1898, p. 947. That section enacts that any husband or father who deserts or willfully refuses or neglects to provide for or maintain his wife or other family shall be deemed and adjudged a disorderly person, and whenever any overseer of the poor of the township or city within which the…