Johnson City v. Weeks
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WASHINGTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Washington County. — Hal H. Haynes, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The bill of complaint was filed by the city of Johnson City, a municipal corporation, to enjoin the officials of Washington county from assessing and collecting taxes for county purposes upon a water pipe line, owned by the city, that extends from its corporation boundary line to the south gate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, an institution occupying a park of several hundred acres partly within and for the most part without the corporate limits.
In the bill it is alleged that the city installed this pipe line for the purpose of disposing of surplus water, not needed or…
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