Moore v. Memphis Stone & Gravel Company

Defendants below, Memphis Stone & Grravel Company and Joe Shankman, appeal from the Chancellor’s action in sustaining complainants’ bill and ordering an injunction restraining Memphis Stone and Grravel Company, as lessee, and Joe Shankman, as lessor and owner, from excavating and mining gravel from the Shankman property on the grounds that such mining operations were in violation of the “Five mile County-City Zoning Regulations” passed by the joint action of Shelby County and the City of Memphis pursuant to authority of Chapter 613 of the Private Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee for…