Mayor of New York v. Ehrsam

As to the motion for reargument, it does not appear that the court in disposing of the appeal in this case overlooked the statutes and decisions cited by appellant. The consolidation act provides that where a party is convicted of being a disorderly person, or of having threatened to abandon, or having actually abandoned, his family, wife, or child in the city of New York, without adequate support, or in danger of becoming a burden upon the public, or of having neglected to provide, according to his means, for his family, the magistrate convicting shall make an order specifying a certain sum…