Shelby County v. Hale

The bill in this cause was filed by the appellees, who at the time were Commissioners of Shelby County constituting the Board of County Commissioners, Shelby County, Tennessee. In this bill they sought a declaratory judgment of their rights- to have paid them the annual salary as prescribed by Chapter 237, Sec. 6 of the Private Acts of Tennessee for 1911, as amended by Chapter 91 of the Private Acts of 1955 as and from April 4, 1955. The bill, of course, under the Declaratory Judgments Act, T.C.A. sec. 23-1101 et seq., seeking the declaration as to the constitutionality of an act of the…