Vandeventer v. Van Court

3 N.J.L. 169

Opinion

By the Court.

— Although a common informer may bring an action generally in his own name, yet when the penalty is either given to the State, the poor of the township where the offence is committed, or others, he must declare specially qui tam, in order that the interest of those who have right, may appeal* of record, and be asserted. Judgment must, therefore, for this cause he reversed, a)