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BENNETT v. STUTTS

521 S.W.2d 575 (1975)

Mrs. Joan BENNETT et al., Appellants, v. T.C. STUTTS et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 10, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Boyd, Jr., Dyersburg, for appellants.

James O. Lanier, County Atty., Ralph I. Lawson, Dyersburg, for appellees.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

This suit seeking to vindicate a patent public wrong must fail for plaintiff's lack of standing to sue.

Eighteen citizens, residents and taxpayers of Dyer County, Tennessee, filed their complaint in the Law and Equity Court at Dyersburg seeking to invalidate the election of the defendant, Casey J. Vinson, as County Superintendent of Public Instruction. Among others the Chairman of the Dyer County Quarterly Court and the members...

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