Wright v. Donaldson
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM LAKE. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lake County.— TToN. V. IT. Holmes, Chancellor. This case was disposed of at the April term, 1920, hut opinion not written and filed until April 30, 1921.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hall
This cause involves the. constitutionality of chapter 288 of the Acts (Private) of 1917, which is the road law applicable to Lake county.
The complainant filed her hill in the chancery court of Lake county, seeking to enjoin the defendants, who constitute the highway commissioners of said county under said act, from taking and appropriating a portion of her *258land for road purposes. The right of said commissioners' to take and appropriate complainant’s land is challenged by her bilj upon the ground that said act is unconstitutional and void.
Upon the cause being heard before the chancellor a…
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