Frazer v. Carr

Mr. Special Justice Tomlinson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit filed under the declaratory judgment law. Its purpose is to have declared void the recently established Metropolitan Government by a consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the governmental and corporate functions of Davidson County, (its population being more than 200,000) and of Nashville, its principal city. Section 6-3702 T.C.A.

Thus was created, unless the proceedings are void, a governmental entity, based upon a Metropolitan Charter, sec. 6-3711 T.C.A. Its governing body is a metropolitan council vested…