Legal Opinion

Biggs v. Beeler

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided July 3, 1943Published

1Opinion

On Petition to Rei-iear.

Mr. Justice! Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court on the petition to rehear.

A petition to rehear is presented by one of the defendants, H. A. Crox, as a member of the County Election Commission, challenging for the first time, the proposition asserted by complainants below, concurred in by all parties on the hearing in this Court, and adopted in our opinion without dissent, that the provision in our Constitution for a poll tax is mandatory.

Frankly conceding' that the petition violates our rules of practice and precedent procedure in now raising this issue,…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
  2. Scopes v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1927
  3. McElfresh v. KirkendallSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
  4. Wood v. CurreyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1881
  5. State ex rel. Gouge v. BurrowTennessee Supreme Court · 1907

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