98 P. 875 | Or. | 1909
Lead Opinion
Opinion by
For the reasons given, the judgment of the court below is reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to discharge the petitioner. Reversed.
Rehearing
Decided February 9, 1909.
On Petition for Rehearing.
[98 Pac. 1185.]
delivered the opinion of the court.
Counsel is in error in assuming that the court held or intended to hold that a municipal officer could not, in a proper proceeding, question the validity of a city ordinance. The holding is that a city cannot maintain a criminal prosecution against one for maintaining a nuisance in doing that which it expressly authorizes, as long as the ordinance, authorizing the act complained of, remains unrepealed. This is not an action or suit between Zimmerman and Gritzmacher, but is a habeas corpus
Rehearing Denied.