Hancock v. Davidson County

The bill herein assails the validity of an act of the Legislature, chapter 12 of the Private Acts of 1937. A demurrer to the bill was sustained and the complainant appealed.

The statute in question creates a court of general sessions with three judges for Davidson County and section 2 provides that the court “is hereby vested with all the jurisdiction and shall exercise the authority conferred by the Legislature upon justices of the peace in civü and criminal eases, suits and actions; and the justices of the peace of Davidson County, Tennessee, are hereby divested of all such jurisdiction and…