Fischer v. Meader

The opinion of the c-onrt was delivered by

Minturn, J.

Af^er Baihara Fischer, one of these petitioners, the natural mother of the child in controversy, had been committed to the county jail of Passaic county, by a police *60magistrate of the city of Passaic, on. the 16th of March, 1916, for the offence of cruel and inhuman treatment of her child, the latter an infant five years of age, was thereafter, on April 1st, 1916, legally committed by the same magistrate on the application of the overseer of the poor, as an abandoned child, to the care and custody of the state board of children’s guardians.…