WILSON v. WILLIAMS


250 S.W.2d 73 (1952)

WILSON et al. v. WILLIAMS, County Judge.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. W. Dagley, County Atty., J.H. McCartt, S.H. Justice, all of Wartburg, John Jennings, Jr., Knoxville, for complainants.

Ladd & Qualls, Harriman, for defendant.


PREWITT, Justice.

This is a suit seeking to have Chapter 475, Private Acts of 1951 declared unconstitutional. The Chancellor, on demurrer, upheld the Act as valid in all respects.

The Act in question is assailed for many reasons but only two grounds are stressed.

First, does the use of the 1940 census, rather than the 1950 census, invalidate this Act?

Such classification is not arbitrary, vicious or capricious. Hall v. State, 124 Tenn. 235...

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