Vaughan v. Latta

The plaintiff sought to institute and maintain the action under sections 5964 and 59®, O. S. 1931. Those sections authorize a taxpayer of a town to maintain an action to recover property or money of the town transferred or paid out illegally or without authority. The purpose of this action is to recover certain property transferred to defendants by the officers of the town of May, and to recover certain sums of money from the defendants by way of accounting for the same to the town of May. Such action is authorized to be maintained for the joint benefit of the taxpayer and the town. Such…