Roane County v. Anderson County

Lürton, J.

By an Act passed February 27, 1889, the line between Roane and Anderson Counties was so changed as to detach from Roane about 355 acres, upon which is located much of the new town of Oliver Springs. Roane County having an area of less than 500 square miles, filed this bill to restrain Anderson County from exercising the functions of local government over the territory thus annexed, upon the ground that the change of line operated to further reduce the area of the county, and that under the Constitution of the State this could not be done. Anderson County concedes that' the area of…