Frost v. City of Chattanooga

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This case filed pursuant to our Declaratory Judgment Statutes, T.C.A. 23-1101 et seq., seeks a judgment as to the constitutionality of Chapter 420, Public Acts of 1971. The chancellor found the Act constitutional.

T.C.A. 6-309 is a part of the general law governing the right of municipalities to annex by ordinance of the municipality territory adjacent to its boundaries. The Act in question is an amendment to T.C.A. 6~ 309, having the general purpose of allowing residents in the annexed territory to pay municipal taxes in accord with the municipal services received.…