Legal Opinion

Earnest v. Greene County

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1917PublishedCited by 10 opinions

FROM GREENE. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Greene County. - — Hal. IT. TIaynes, Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

'Mb. Justice Buci-iauau

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The hill sought an injunction restraining the issuance of bonds authorized by House Bill 456, Acts of the General Assembly of 1917, passed on March 2, 1917, approved March 6, 1917- (see chapter 100, page 345, Private Acts of 1917), upon the ground that said act was unconstitutional and void.

By way of defense a demurrer was interposed, which the chancellor sustained and dismissed the hill, and from his decree complainants have appealed and assigned errors.

The act assailed, in its first section, authorizes Greene county to issue…

2Cited by10 opinions

  1. Highwoods Properties, Inc. v. City of MemphisTennessee Supreme Court · 2009
  2. Town of McMinnville v. CurtisTennessee Supreme Court · 1946
  3. Frazer v. CarrTennessee Supreme Court · 1962
  4. Trotter v. City of MaryvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1950
  5. Mills v. Shelby County Election CommissionCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2006

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