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STATE EX REL. WILSON v. CITY OF LAFAYETTE

572 S.W.2d 922 (1978)

STATE of Tennessee, ex rel. Charles WILSON, Dock J. Johnson, C.D. Patterson & James H. White, individually and representing a class of citizens of Macon County, Appellants, v. The CITY OF LAFAYETTE, Tennessee, Page Durham, Mayor, Britton Linville, Councilman, J.D. Knight, Councilman, Mary Tom Link, Councilman, Emogene Hunt, Councilman, Donnie Prock, Councilman, and Ronald Dycus, Councilman, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

November 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur McClellan, Gallatin, for appellants.

Jon A. Wells, Lafayette, Ogden Stokes, Griffith & Stokes, Susan Emery McGannon, Griffith & Stokes, Nashville, for appellees.

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery Court of Macon County upholding the validity of the annexation ordinance adopted by the City of Lafayette, Tennessee, on March 15, 1977. Appellants, residents of the area annexed, insist the ordinance is invalid in that:

(1) It was not passed on three separate readings as required by the city charter; and

(2) The ordinance was unreasonable and unnecessary in consideration...

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