Illustration Design Group, Inc. v. McCanless

Me. Justice Felts, Retired,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by the Illustration Design Group, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, suing as a taxpayer, under the Declaratory Judgments Act 1 seeking a decree declaring Chapter 421, Public Acts of 1968 (as amended), unconstitutional and enjoining official action thereunder by defendant state officials, George F. McCanless, Attorney General; Joe Carr, Secretary of State; William Snod-grass, Comptroller; Harlan Matthews, Commissioner of Finance and Administration; and Charles E. Worley, Treasurer.

This Act 2 provided that at the…