Deaton v. Evans

The bill involved in this suit was filed by Mrs. Deaton in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, that being her residence. The persons made defendants were Evans, Commissioner of the Department of Finance and Taxation of Tennessee, and Bates, Supervisor of its Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Division. This is the division created by reason of Chapter 75, Public Acts of 1949, and known as the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Act. Crawford as Chief of the West Tennessee Division of the State Highway Patrol was also made a defendant. The bill does not allege the residence of any of…