PENN-DIXIE CEMENT CORPORATION v. CITY OF KINGSPORT


225 S.W.2d 270 (1949)

PENN-DIXIE CEMENT CORPORATION v. CITY OF KINGSPORT.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 17, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Penn, Hunter, Smith & Davis, of Kingsport, for plaintiff in error.

Dodson & Dodson, and H. Marvin Parsons, of Kingsport, for defendant in error.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case because it involved the power of municipalities to enact ordinances for the abatement of smoke and dust issuing from manufacturing plants to the injury of the health of the people. Counsel for the plaintiff in error and the defendant have discussed the case at length both in oral argument and by filing elaborate briefs.

While several assignments of error have...

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