MAYOR & ALDERMEN OF CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE v. WILSON


367 S.W.2d 772 (1963)

MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF the CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, Complainants, v. Zelma M. WILSON et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevens & Bagley, Fayetteville, for complainants.

Templeton & Thompson, Fayetteville, for defendants.

Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen.

Robert E. Banks, Elizabethton, amicus curiae, for Tennessee Municipal League.


DYER, Justice.

In this opinion Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Fayetteville, a municipal corporation with situs in Lincoln County, Tennessee, will be referred to as Complainant, Zelma M. Wilson and wife Cathy Wilson as Defendants, and George F. McCanless, Attorney General of Tennessee as such.

On January 15, 1963 Complainant filed their original bill alleging their area has long been predominantly agricultural and due to mechanization there now existed an...

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