Attorney-General v. Mayor of Anglesea

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This information exhibited by the attorney-general directly questions the right of the mayor and council of the borough of Anglesea to exercise the franchises of a municipal corporation of this state. The plea to which a demurrer has been filed brought before the Supreme Court— first, the apparent existence of any legislative authority for the corporate life of the defendant; and, second, the constitutionality of such legislation, if any such were apparently part of the statute law of the state.

The legislation concerned is—first, “An act…