Keith v. Beasley

The four complainants, who were members of the Nashville Civil Service and Pension Board, insist that they were illegally legislated out of office and supplanted by the defendants by Chapter 2 of the Private Acts of 1941. The contention is that under the 1941 Act no new system of civil service was created, and that the change from the old acts was colorable and not substantial and was made for the sole purpose of substituting defendants for complainants.

The bill was demurred to upon the ground that the 1941 Act was valid, and the demurrer was sustained by the chancellor and the bill dismissed.