City of Knoxville v. State ex rel. Graves

The City Council of Knoxville, acting under the statute (Ch. 113, Acts 1955, now T.C.A. secs. 6-304, 6-308 to 6-319), passed an ordinance annexing to the City an adjoining area commonly known as Fountain City. There*560upon, certain residents of that area brought this suit in the nature of a quo warranto proceeding, attacking the ordinance and the statute.

Relators’ petition alleged that the ordinance was unreasonable and void, and the statute on which it was based was unconstitutional, upon numerous grounds which were set out in numbered paragraphs of the petition. Defendant City of Knoxville…