Vollmer v. City of Memphis

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

This suit in the nature of a Quo Warran-to proceeding has a long and extensive history. In December 1984 the plaintiffs filed a complaint challenging the validity of an ordinance proposed by the City of Memphis to annex and include within its corporate limits certain adjacent areas, including the town of Cordova, in Shelby County, Tennessee. The constitutional issue raised in the complaint was that the annexing ordinance violated Article 1, § 1 and Article 11, § 16 of the Tennessee Constitution. A motion for summary judgment filed by the plaintiffs was granted in the…