KIDD v. McCANLESS


292 S.W.2d 40 (1956)

Gates KIDD et al. v. George F. McCANLESS, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Knox Bigham, James M. Glasgow and Jack Wilson, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

Haynes Miller and Mayne Miller, and Kent Herrin, Johnson City, Peter Hampton, Elizabethton, Hobart F. Atkins, Knoxville, MacLin P. Davis, Jr., and Barksdale, Hudgins & Osborn, Nashville, for appellees.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Attorney General from a decree overruling certain grounds of appellants' demurrer to the original bill, and declaring that the legislation providing for the apportionment of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly, the same being Chapter 122 of the Public Acts of 1901, as amended, now codified as Sections 3-101 et seq. of Tennessee Code Annotated, has expired and is no longer effective.

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