Legal Opinion
Perritt v. Carter
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided May 1, 1959PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Prewitt
This is a suit filed on behalf of a number of residents of Carroll County, asking that the appellants have a declaratory judgment decreeing that Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of the G-eneral Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1957 be held unconstitutional and void.
The purpose of the Act was to enlarge the Hunt-ingdon Special School District so that it would not only embrace a portion of the Eleventh Civil District of Carroll County as originally provided, but to include all of the Tenth Civil District, portions of the Eighth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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