Checker Cab Co. v. City of Johnson

The only question for decision on this appeal is whether the Chanceller erred in adjudging unconstitutional that portion hereinafter referred to of Section 6 of Chapter 32, Private Acts of 1945.

• This Private Act regulates in some detail the operation of taxicabs over the streets of Johnson City. An act with approximately the same provisions applicable to City of Elizabethton has recently been sustained. Large v. City of Elizabethton, 185 Tenn. 156, 203 S. W. (2d) 907. That act contained a provision identical in substance with Section 6 of the Johnson City Act. However, the party attacking…