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CITY OF NASHVILLE v. GIBSON COUNTY

298 S.W.2d 540 (1956)

CITY OF NASHVILLE et al., Appellants, v. GIBSON COUNTY et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied February 8, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Leathers, City Attorney, Farris, Evans & Evans, Nashville, for appellant City of Nashville.

Frank B. Gianotti, Jr., Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Memphis, for appellant City of Memphis.

James L. Bomar, Jr., Shelbyville, for appellant Tennessee Bureau of Aeronautics.

E. T. Palmer, Dyersburg, for appellee Dyer County.

Marion H. Holmes, Jr., Trenton, for appellee Gibson County.

Allison B. Humphries, Sol. Gen., Nashville, Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee Attorney General.

Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, for appellee Madison County and other intervening counties.

Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, and Camp & Camp, Sparta, for appellee White County.

SWEPSTON, Justice.

The appeal is directly to this Court on a stipulation of facts. The contest is between the counties of the State on the one hand and certain municipalities operating airport facilities on the other hand. The Chancellor in a very comprehensive opinion held in favor of the counties and hence the cities have appealed.

As appears from the stipulation of facts and from the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Evans, 194 Tenn. 377,

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