Legal Opinion
Tennessee v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 26, 1958No. Nos. 12657-12660PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STARR, District Judge.
These four appeals were consolidated for hearing in this court, and for sake of brevity we shall refer to the United States of America as “the government,” Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company as “Southern Bell,” the State of Tennessee as “the state,” and Sevier county, Tennessee, as “the county.”
The initial step in the litigation involved in these appeals was a civil action begun February 19, 1953, by the government at the request of the Secretary of the Interior against the state, the county, Southern Bell, and others. In the first count of its complaint the…
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3Cited by18 opinions
- State v. City of AustinTexas Supreme Court · 1960
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