Carr v. City of Memphis

Complainant assigns as error the dismissal of his bill of complaint upon the ground that it fails to allege that the taxes sought to be recovered from defendant were paid under protest, or under duress, and that, having been voluntarily paid, there can be no recovery therefor.

The bill of complaint "alleges payment of taxes under chapter 790 of the Private Acts of Tennessee of 1919; that said law is void because of noneomplianee with constitutional requirements, in that the proposed law was read in the Senate only one time, and that the subject of the chapter is not expressed in the title;…