Legal Opinion

Pope v. Phifer

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided February 22, 1871PublishedCited by 14 opinions

FROM WHITE. Chancery Court at Sparta.- W. H. Goodpasture, Ch.

1Opinion of the Court

EreemaN, J.,

delivered the' opinion of the Court.

This bill is filed by complainants, the three first of whom composed the Quorum Court of.White pounty at the time, and other citizens of said county, to restrain by injunction the defendants from organizing as a Board of Commissioners, or Commissioners’ Court, for the County of White, and to have a law that was passed by the Legislature on the 12th of March, 1868, entitled “An act to create a Board of Commissioners for the county of Madison,” the provisions of which were extended, by the 15th section of said act, to the county of W"hite,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. M'culloch v. State of MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
  2. Adams v. MillsNew York Court of Appeals · 1875

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Prescott v. DuncanTennessee Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Hall v. Bell CountyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1911
  3. Davis v. WilliamsTennessee Supreme Court · 1928
  4. Luehrman v. Taxing District of Shelby CountyTennessee Supreme Court · 1879
  5. Keith v. Funding BoardTennessee Supreme Court · 1912

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