Giles County v. Marshall County

The bill of complaint was filed by Giles county, in its corporate capacity, against Marshall county, seeking to enjoin the defendant county from exercising any jurisdiction over a strip of territory attempted to be taken from the complainant county and added to Marshall county by private Acts 1915) chapter 384. The constitutionality of the act is attacked by the bill of complaint on two grounds set out below.

The chancellor held the act to be invalid, and the county of Marshall has prayed an appeal to this court and assigned errors.

It is manifest that the reason for the passage of the act was…