PERRITT v. CARTER


325 S.W.2d 233 (1959)

M.L. PERRITT et al. v. Halbert CARTER et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Dyke & Dunlap, Paris, for appellants.

Maddox, Maddox & Lassiter, Huntingdon, for appellees.


PREWITT, Justice.

This is a suit filed on behalf of a number of residents of Carroll County, asking that the appellants have a declaratory judgment decreeing that Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1957 be held unconstitutional and void.

The purpose of the Act was to enlarge the Huntingdon Special School District so that it would not only embrace a portion of the Eleventh Civil District of Carroll...

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