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SHELBY COUNTY v. HALE

292 S.W.2d 745 (1956)

SHELBY COUNTY and Charles Baker, Chairman of the Shelby County Court, Riley C. Garner, Trustee of Shelby County, all residents of Shelby County, Tennessee, v. E.W. HALE, Sr., Dan C. Mitchell and Rudolph Jones, all residents of Shelby County, Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.W. Hale, Jr., County Attorney of Shelby County, Memphis, for appellants.

John M. Heiskell and Larry Creson, Memphis, for appellees.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Allison B. Humphreys, Solicitor General, Nashville, and Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee.

BURNETT, Justice.

The bill in this cause was filed by the appellees, who at the time were Commissioners of Shelby County constituting the Board of County Commissioners, Shelby County, Tennessee. In this bill they sought a declaratory judgment of their rights to have paid them the annual salary as prescribed by Chapter 237, Sec. 6 of the Private Acts of Tennessee for 1911, as amended by Chapter 91 of the Private Acts of 1955 as and from April 4, 1955. The bill, of...

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