Attorney General v. Hane

This is an information in equity to abate a mill-dam as injurious to the public health. It purports to be on the sole intervention of the Attorney General, though prosecuted apparently by private counsel. The defendant pleaded to the jurisdiction, and the court below allowed the plea and dismissed the information.

The Attorney General appealed. The case has proceeded without any relator responsible for costs, and no security has been given on appeal, and no one appears here to represent the State.

*448We are not aware of any' precedent for this practice. So far as we know, no case in equity can be…