O'Connor v. City of Memphis
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court at Memphis. S. P. 'Walker, Ch. Motion to revive against the Taxing District.
1Opinion of the CourtCooler, J.
By the act of 1879, ch. 10, the Legislature repealed certain charters of municipal corporations, and among others, the charter of the city of Memphis. By an act passed on the same day, the several communities embraced in the territorial limits of the municipal corporations whose charters were thus abolished, were created taxing districts, “in order to provide, the means of local government for the peace, safety and. *731general welfare of such districts.” The - community embraced in the territorial limits of the city of Memphis became, by the act, the taxing district of Shelby county, and…
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