American Bemberg Corp. v. City of Elizabethton

Complainants filed their bill to have declared unconstitutional'Chapter 3 of the Private Acts of 1943, and to enjoin the defendant City of Elizabethton from assessing and collecting- taxes on their property. The Act in question undertakes to extend the corporate limits of the City of Elizabethton so as to bring the area owned by complainants into the city limits.

Complainants assert that the Act violates contracts had with the City in that their plants were located near the City with the understanding that their property was not to be taken into the corporation of the City; that said Acts…