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DEHOFF v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

564 S.W.2d 361 (1978)

George W. DEHOFF, Harry Belcher, for and on behalf of the Registered Voters of Rutherford County, Tennessee, and Ben Hall McFarlin, Sr., Appellants, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, State of Tennessee, Secretary of State, State of Tennessee and Rutherford County Election Commission, Defendants, John T. Bragg, Intervening Defendant, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Francis Stewart, Stewart, Ester & Donnell, Nashville, for appellants; Jack G. Heffington, Ben Hall McFarlin, Jr., Richard E. Leddy, Jim K. Duncan, Murfreesboro, of counsel.

John R. Rucker, Rucker & Rucker, Wm. T. Sellers, Smith & Sellers, Murfreesboro, for appellees.

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

The plaintiffs have appealed from the action of the trial court dismissing their suit for a declaratory judgment upon the ground that it was an election contest and as such was barred by the ten day period of limitations prescribed for filing of election contests by T.C.A., § 2-1705.

The controversy grows out of the enactment of a private act applicable only to Rutherford County...

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