Legal Opinion

Witt v. McCanless

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided June 8, 1956PublishedCited by 23 opinions

(May Session, 1956)

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swepston

W. A. Witt and other residents, citizens and taxpayers and property owners of the Sequoia-Woodmere section of Hamilton County filed their suit in the Chancery Court under the Declaratory Judgment Law for the purpose of having declared unconstitutional and invalid a City ordinance of annexation passed by the City of Chattanooga pursuant to Chapter 113 of the Public Acts of 1955. The Chancellor held that said Act and ordinance were not unconstitutional and the complainants have appealed from the action of the Chancellor in sustaining the demurrer of the defendants to the bill.

Said Act was…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Memphis Street Railway Co. v. ByrneTennessee Supreme Court · 1907
  2. State v. Cumberland ClubTennessee Supreme Court · 1916
  3. Pharr v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1948
  4. Farmer v. Mayor of NashvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Crewse v. BeelerTennessee Supreme Court · 1948

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Dorrier v. DarkTennessee Supreme Court · 1976
  2. Deane Hill Country Club, Inc. v. City of Knoxville and George F. McCanless Attorney General of TennesseeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1967
  3. State Ex Rel. Balsinger v. Town of MadisonvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
  4. City of Aurora v. BRYANTIndiana Supreme Court · 1960
  5. Morton v. Johnson CityTennessee Supreme Court · 1960

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