Legal Opinion
Phillips v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 29, 1957Published
1Opinion of the Court
304 S.W.2d 614 (1957)
Albert H. PHILLIPS
v.
STATE of Tennessee.
Supreme Court of Tennessee.
July 29, 1957.
K. Harlan Dodson, Jr., and John Jay Hooker, Jr., Nashville, for plaintiff in error.
James M. Glasgow, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
TOMLINSON, Justice.
Chapter 260 of the Public Acts of 1957 requires the observation in Tennessee of "only standard time" as fixed for Tennessee by the United States Interstate Commerce Commission. The statute forbids every governmental entity from adopting, permanently or temporarily, any other standard of time. It then provides this:
"No person, firm, partnership,…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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