City of Chattanooga v. Fanburg

This lawsuit attacks the constitutionality of a wrecker or towing service ordinance passed by the City of Chattanooga. The Ordinance No. 4072 is copied in full in the footnote. 1 The trial judge held the Ordinance void as being obnoxious to Article XI, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which prohibits the passage of “any law for the benefit of individuals inconsistent with the general laws of the land”, etc.; and as prohibited by Section 8 of Article I, as not being “due process of law”, or “the law of the land.” And likewise as offensive to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United…