State ex rel. Godfroy v. Board of Commissioners

•Niblaok, J.

This was a proceeding' instituted in the court below, in the name of the State, on the relation of Gabriel Godfroy, alias Top-Pier-Yah, against the Board of Commissioners of the county of Miami, to compel them to refund certain taxes alleged to have been improperly collected from the relator.

The complaint, which was verified by affidavit, may, after some immaterial changes in its phraseology merely, be stated as follows:

“ Gabriel Godfroy, for himself and others, whose names are too numerous to be named as relators, but whose grievances are in all things similar to the claim of…