Severson v. Macomber
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John F. Severson, as commissioner of charities, etc., from an order of the County Court of Broome county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 30th day of October, 1911, setting aside the verdict of a jury in plaintiff’s favor and granting a new trial herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
On the 6th day of November, 1909, one Irving Lathrop, upon a plea pf guilty, was convicted by a magistrate of Broome county of being a disorderly person in that he had left his family, consisting of a wife and children, without adequate support and in danger of becoming á burden upon the public, and had neglected to provide for them according to his means. Thereupon the magistrate, in pursuance of the power given by section 901 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, required that Lathrop give security by written undertaking in the penal sum of $400 for the payment of $6 weekly for…
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