Vandeventer v. Vancourt ( 1807 )

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 offense is committed, or others, he must declare specially qui tarn, in order that the interest of those who have right, may appear of record, and be asserted. Judgment, must, therefore, for this cause be reversed.