Hess v. Jeannes

The record shows that this action was not commenced by the plaintiffs, through the official law officer of the city government, but by W. H. Mhndy, as the attorney of one Rillings, a common informer, who asserted, as his authority, that portion of the act of 1857 (chap. 638, § 30) which permits informers on certain conditions to prosecute for excise penalties in the names'of the overseers of the poor. Rillings was, upon motion, made by the defendant, required to give security for costs, upon the ground that he had assumed the position of a person authorized by statute to sue (Code, § 3371; 63…