Knoxtenn Theatres, Inc. v. Dance

The only question on this appeal is whether the Chancellor erred in dismissing complainant's bill attacking the constitutionality of Chapter 776, Private Acts of 1947. Each of the four assignments of error insists that the Act violates Article I, Section 8, Article XI, Section 8 of the Constitution of the State and the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution, being the due process and equal protection clauses.

The act applies only to Knox County on a population classification. It levies a tax of one cent for each twenty cents or major fraction thereof paid for an admission ticket to a place…