City of Johnson City v. Clinchfield Railroad

The city filed this hill under the Declaratory Judgment Act seeking a construction, or interpretation, these terms having in common usage the same significance, of Chap. 401 of the Private Acts of 1929, passed March 29th of that year, amending the charter of Johnson City, so as to extend the corporate limits to embrace certain adjacent territory, including property of' the defendant railroad corporations. Two questions are presented by the pleadings, (1) whether or not the description of the territory proposed to be annexed is sufficiently definite; and, (2) whether or not the municipal taxes…