Hart v. City of Johnson City

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

This case requires this Court to determine the constitutionality of the 1984 amendment to Tenn.Code Ann. § 6-51-103 — the statute authorizing suits to contest municipal annexations. The amendment permits property owners adjacent to property annexed by municipal ordinance to bring a quo warranto action contesting the reasonableness of the annexation. However, by population classification it excludes adjacent property owners in 81 of 95 Tennessee counties from the amendment’s provisions.

The plaintiffs insist that the population classifications set out in the 1984…