Mid-America Cable Corp. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

OPINION

PURYEAR, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment suit involving the question of whether or not a certain ordinance of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, designated as substitute ordinance No. 71-1404, was lawfully enacted.

On August 2, 1971, the Honorable Beverly Briley, Mayor of Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, vetoed an ordinance designated as substitute ordinance No. 71-1404 which purported to grant a franchise to plaintiff-appellee, Mid-America Cable Corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, operate…