City of Watauga v. City of Johnson City

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a trial court decree adverse to the City of Watauga’s suit contesting the validity of an annexation ordinance adopted by the City of Johnson City. Both cities adopted ordinances annexing the same territory.1

Watauga’s complaint asserted that Johnson City is the larger of the two municipalities and relied upon T.C.A. § 6-317, as amended by chapter 753, section 5, 1974 Tennessee Public Acts, for standing to chal*903lenge the annexation ordinance of its larger neighbor. Watauga alleged that the provisions of T.C.A. § 6-317, giving precedence to the…