Tennessee Division of United Daughters of Confederacy v. Vanderbilt University

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., P.J., M.S.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which FRANK G. CLEMENT, JR., J., joined. WILLIAM B. CAIN, J., filed a concurring opinion.

This appeal involves a dispute stemming from a private university’s decision to change the name of one of its dormitories. An organization that donated part of the funds used to construct the dormitory filed suit in the Chancery Court for Davidson County asserting that the university’s decision to rename the dormitory breached its seventy-year-old agreement with the university and requesting declaratory and in-junctive relief…