PIDGEON-THOMAS IRON COMPANY v. SHELBY COUNTY


397 S.W.2d 375 (1965)

PIDGEON-THOMAS IRON COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. SHELBY COUNTY, Tennessee, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 9, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Heiskell, Memphis, Montedonico, Gilliland, Heiskell, Davis, Canale & Glankler, Memphis, and Donald W. Pemberton, Memphis, Boone, Boone, Langschmidt & Pemberton, Memphis, of counsel, for appellants.

Eugene Greener, James M. Manire, Jack Petree, James W. Watson, William H. Williams, Memphis, Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Buchignani & Greener, Memphis, Chandler, Manire, Chandler & Johnson, Memphis, Evans, Petree, Cobb & Edwards, Memphis, Laughlin, Watson, Garthright & Halle, Memphis, of counsel, for appellees.


ERBY L. JENKINS, Special Justice.

The original bill was filed herein by a number of corporations doing business in Shelby County against the defendants named therein, praying for a declaratory judgment under the authority of T.C.A. § 23-1101 et seq., with reference to the validity of a resolution passed by the Shelby County Quarterly Court authorizing a referendum on the question of the imposition of a local sales tax, applicable to Shelby County only, to be...

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