Jones v. Memphis

This bill is brought to test the validity and constitutionality of certain Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee, passed at its extra session, 1898. It is filed by a number of persons, some of whom are nonresidents of the State, but interested in the questions presented. Others reside in the territory annexed by the Acts to the city of Memphis, others own property therein, and still others do business within the limits, while the principal defendant, Mrs. Chas. Jones, owns what is styled *190in the record a Flippin bond, and presents a question specially affecting her interests as well as…