Woodbury v. Brown

Brown was arrested, tried, convicted, and fined for the violation of an ordinance *708of the town of Woodbury. He appealed to the Circuit Court, and was there discharged upon a plea in abatement, denying the validity of the corporate charter. From the latter judgment the town appealed in error to this Court, and hez-e insists • upon the validity of its charter.

This charter was sought and granted under Chapter 92, Acts of 1875, as amended by Chapter 121, Acts of 1877, and its validity or invalidity is to be determined by its conformity or nonconformity to the rule of procedure thereby prescribed.…