Corporation of Sevierville v. King

The corporation filed its petition to enjoin King from obstructing a roadway lying within the corporate lines as extended by Chapter 285, Private Acts of 1937. King presented several defenses; chief among them an attack on the constitutionality of the Act of 1937. Thereafter, King filed his bill directly raising this question and seeking an injunction restraining the corporation from opening the disputed way, or collecting taxes on his property lying inside of the contested boundary. The Chancellor consolidated the two causes and held the provision in Section 2 of the Act purporting to exempt…