Evelyn Tupper Barker v. Thelma Lein

OPINION OF THE COURT

Plaintiff appellant, in her petition for a declaratory judgment, alleges that she obtained private information concerning a delinquent taxpayer; that she communicated it to her respondent sister, in confidence; tha£ thereafter plaintiff gave the information to respondent district director, who used it to collect the tax; that his agent told her she would be paid an informer’s fee; that she applied to the director for payment; that her sister, in breach of confidence, had previously given the information to the director, and had made claim for the fee, which the director…