Legal Opinion
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Walters
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 1935No. 183PublishedCited by 214 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This suit under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act of Tennessee, 1 was brought, on November 21, 1931, in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Part One, by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway against the State Highway Commissioner and the Attorney General. The purpose of the suit is to secure a determination of the constitutionality of an order entered by the Commission and, as so applied, of Chapter 132 of the Tennessee Acts of 1921, upon which the order rests. 2 The statute authorizes the Commission whenever a state…
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