State ex rel. Williams v. City of Nashville

The constitutionality of chapter 525 of the Private Acts of 1917 is here assailed by a demurrer filed by the city of Nashville and its commissioners to a hill filed against them by the members of the fire department of the city of Nashville on relation, wherein it was sought to compel the city authorities to adopt an ordinance fixing the salaries of the members of the fire department, as provided in the act under consideration.

The caption of the act, as finally passed, is as follows:

“An. act to be entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled “An act to create a municipal corporation to be known…