Legal Opinion
Perry v. City of Elizabethton
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 21, 1929PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mb,. Justice SwiggaR,t
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The original bill in this canse was filed by J. T. Perry, as a taxpayer of the City of Elizabethton, under the Declaratory Judgments Law, Acts 1923, chapter 29, for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of an act purporting to amend the charter of Elizabethton, Private Acts 1929, chapter 466.
The City of Elizabethton, its Mayor an|d Councilmen, the members of the County Board of Election Commissioners, and the Attorney-General and Reporter of the State were named as the defendants to the bill. An answer was filed for the' City, in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Miller v. MillerTennessee Supreme Court · 1923
- Reams v. Board of Mayor AldermenTennessee Supreme Court · 1927
3Cited by25 opinions
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