People v. Betancourt

The Attorney General, at the instance of José C. Rivera, as relator, instituted this proceeding to oust defendant from his office, as a member of the municipal council of San Sebastian. At the threshold of the trial defendant, in a motion accompanied by documentary evidence in support of the proposition that Rivera not being nor ever having been a taxpayer had no adequate inter'est in the question involved, challenged the right of relator to proceed.

*802This motion was overruled by the district conrt on the theory that any resident of San Sebastián of age might be a relator, the matter being one…