Fountain City Sanitary District v. Knox County Election Commission

The question presented here in a proper proceedings under the declaratory judgment statute is whether Chapter 320 of the Private Acts of 1957 is a constitutional enactment. It is in this Court on appeal from a decree of the Chancellor so adjudging.

Fountain City is a section of Knox County one and a half miles north of Knoxville. Within its boundaries there dwell some 35,000 people. Its soil does not satisfactorily absorb waste material. Its topography is such that this material is scattered over the surface of the soil and washed into parts of Knoxville, and tends to pollute some of its water…