Legal Opinion
Doyle S. Silliman v. City of Memphis
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided July 2, 2014No. W2013-02858-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 8 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · StaffordJ. Steven Stafford, J.
in which ALAN E. HIGHERS, P.J., W.S., and DAVID R. FARMER, J., joined.
In this case, we are called upon to review the trial court’s decision to set aside a consent order regarding an annexation on the basis of the subsequent passage of legislation allegedly affecting the agreed-upon annexation. Because we conclude that Tennessee Code Annotated Section 6-51-122 does not apply to prohibit the annexation ordinance at issue, we reverse the trial court’s judgment and reinstate the consent order.
Background
At some point prior to June 2006, the Defendant/Appellant City of Memphis (“the City”)…
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