STATE v. ROLLINGS


308 S.W.2d 393 (1957)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Helen F. CHEEK et al. v. J.L. ROLLINGS, County Judge of Grundy County, Tennessee et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.A. Kelly, South Pittsburg, John F. Green, Winchester, White, Gullett & Phillips, Nashville, for appellants.

Frank Davenport and Walter H. Griswold, McMinnville, for J.L. Rollings, et al., appellees.

Thomas E. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, for George F. McCanless, Attorney General.


PREWITT, Justice.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether Section 1, Article VI of the Constitution of Tennessee, which provides for the vesting of the judicial power in one supreme court and in such circuit, chancery and other inferior courts as the legislature shall from time to time, ordain and establish, is to be construed as limited or curtailed especially in the establishment of circuit and chancery courts, by that part of Section 9, Article...

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