Beery v. Shelby County
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County. —F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil
The hill was filed by a taxpayer of Shelby county, in behalf of himself and all other taxpayers to have declared void $150,000 of bonds which the county was about to issue, under chapters 295 and 479 of the so-*534called Private Acts of 1917, and certain orders of the connty eonrt "based on these two acts. The ground of attach is that the bonds were to be issued in aid' of Bolton College without the submission of the proposition to the people of Shelby county for a vote thereon, pursuant to the second paragraph of section 29 of article 2 of the Constitution of 1870. The chancellor dismissed the…
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