WATAUGA VALLEY GAS CO. v. EVANS


241 S.W.2d 511 (1951)

WATAUGA VALLEY GAS CO. v. EVANS et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy H. Beeler, Atty. Gen., William F. Barry, Sol. Gen., Nashville, Allison B. Humphreys, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

Dan E. McGugin, Jr., Nashville, Winston & Guinn, Johnson City, for appellees.


PREWITT, Justice.

In the case of Tennessee Gas Company v. McCanless, 184 Tenn. 387, 199 S.W.2d 108, this Court held that butane and propane gas companies were not liable for inspection fees under the existing law. Following this decision, a number of dealers in butane and propane gas in Tennessee undertook to have these fees refunded in the Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill of 1947. They failed in this, and a statute was enacted in 1949, Chapter 235, Public Acts of...

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