Anderson v. Ellington

This action came before the court on plaintiff’s application for a preliminary injunction. At the hearing thereon certain facts were stipulated by the parties, and it was agreed that the hearing could be treated by the court as a final hearing on the merits of plaintiff’s application for a permanent injunction,' subject to disposition by the court of certain preliminary questions.

Plaintiff, William C. Anderson, an indigent, is an inmate of the Metropolitan Davidson County Workhouse in Nashville. He is presently imprisoned there working off costs which were assessed against him in three…