DAUGHERTY v. S. & W. CONST. CO.


268 S.W.2d 94 (1954)

DAUGHERTY et al. v. S. & W. CONST. CO., Inc., et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 3, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Gilliland, and Canale, Glankler, Little, Boone & Loch, Memphis, Denney, Leftwich & Glasgow, Nashville, of counsel, for Maryland Casualty Co.

J. H. Campbell, Franklin, J. E. Travis, Harry Phillips, Nashville, amici curiæ.

James M. Glasgow and Jack Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Roy H. Beeler, Atty. Gen.

Thomas Wardlaw Steele and Val Sanford, Nashville, for R. E. Daugherty, Sr., et al.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

Taxpayers by means of this suit challenge the validity of an approximately $30,000 award made to the Maryland Casualty Company by the Tennessee Board of Claims, and to be paid with funds of the State. One member of the Board, Attorney General Beeler, dissented. The award was made under the supposed authority of Item 24 of Section 2A of Chapter 268 of the Public Acts of 1951. That chapter is the State Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill.

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