State ex rel. Smith v. Town of Church Hill

OPINION

SANDERS, Presiding Judge (Eastern Section).

Plaintiffs have appealed from a decree upholding the annexation of their property by the Defendant.

In 1986 the Plaintiffs-Appellants, Bert E. Smith, III, and wife, Kay C. Smith, and Marie T. Smith (the Smiths) owned a farm in Hawkins County containing approximately 525 acres. The farm was located in a bend of the Holston River which bordered the farm on the south and east. It was bounded on the north by the corporate limits of the Town of Church Hill and on the west by other farm land. In 1986 Smiths asked the Town of Church Hill (Town) to…