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STATE EX REL. MANER v. LEECH

588 S.W.2d 534 (1979)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Charles A. MANER, Jr., Appellee, v. William M. LEECH, Jr., the Attorney General of Tennessee, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 9, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth R. Herrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the Atty. Gen.

Earl S. Ailor, Asquith, Ailor & Jones, Knoxville, for Judge C. Howard Bozeman.

Foster D. Arnett, Lewis R. Hagood, Arnett, Draper & Hagood, Knoxville, for Com'rs of Knox County; Frederic S. LeClercq, Knoxville, of counsel.

Dale C. Workman, Asst. Law Director, Charles A. Maner, Jr., Law Director, Knox County, Knoxville, for relator.

Jonathan H. Burnett, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, for Members of Knox County Quarterly Court.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

This is another lawsuit coming in the wake of the adoption of Chapter 934 of the Public Acts of 1978, the legislative enactment designed to implement certain local government provisions of the 1977 amendments to Article VII of the Constitution of Tennessee.

The specific issue is whether Section 35(b) of the Public Acts of 1978, carried forward into the Official Code as Section 5...

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