Paty v. McDaniel

547 S.W.2d 897 (1977)

Selma Cash PATY, Appellant,

v.

Rev. Paul A. McDANIEL et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 7, 1977.

Selma Cash Paty, pro se.

Brooks McLemore Jr., Atty. Gen., Kenneth R. Herrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant.

J. Thomas Mann, Thomas, Leitner, Mann, Warner & Owens, Chattanooga, Frederic S. Le Clercq, Knoxville, for appellees.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

The major issue in this case is whether the Tennessee Constitutional provision declaring ministers of the gospel and priests of any denomination whatever, ineligible to a seat in either house of the…