Phillips v. Marion County

By summons issued February 24, 1930, Phillips brought this suit against Marion County, to recover damages for land taken for the construction of a state highway.

Counterpart summons was issued January 8, 1932, against the “State of Tennessee, Department of Highways and Public Works.”

An amended declaration was filed on January 30, 1932, against both defendants, charging that a portion of plaintiff’s land was taken, about June 1, 1929, in the construction of a state highway, and that damage was done to his property not taken, by a change of the grade of an existing street which was converted…