SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. DUNN


483 S.W.2d 101 (1972)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. Hon. Winfield DUNN, Governor, et al. Lewis R. DONELSON, III, et al. v. James HARPSTER. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. Lyle LANDERS et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Key, Knoxville, F. Clay Bailey, Jr., Nashville, Dawson Hall, Chattanooga, Harry W. Laughlin, James M. Manire, Memphis, Bass, Berry & Sims, Raymond Whiteaker, Jr., Nashville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Milton P. Rice, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendants-appellees.

Larry D. Woods, Nashville, for intervenor Clifford Allen.


OPINION

McCANLESS, Justice.

The plaintiffs, (1) Southern Railway Company, (2) Lewis R. Donelson and others (including the City of Memphis), and (3) South Central Bell Telephone Company, filed in the Chancery Court at Nashville three separate but similar complaints against certain officials of the State of Tennessee: the Governor, the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Revenue, the Treasurer, the Secretary of State, the Comptroller, and the members of...

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