City of Gallatin v. City of Hendersonville

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit between the City of Galla-tin, Tennessee, and the City of Henderson-ville, Tennessee, two municipal corporations in Sumner County, involving their respective rights when each seeks to annex the same territory. The case comes to this Court by grant of writ of certiorari directed to the Middle Section of the Court of Appeals.

This suit filed by Gallatin on November 24, 1971, against Hendersonville alleges *508that on October 12, 1971, pursuant to T.C.A. 6-309, it initiated proceedings to annex by ordinance the territory here in dispute. The complaint alleges…