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CHATTANOOGA-HAMILTON CTY. HOSP. AUTH. v. CITY OF CHATTANOOGA

580 S.W.2d 322 (1979)

CHATTANOOGA-HAMILTON COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY and Attorney General for the State of Tennessee v. CITY OF CHATTANOOGA et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin O. Moore, Spears, Moore, Rebman & Williams, John P. Gaither, Witt, Gaither & Whitaker, Chattanooga, William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Everett H. Falk, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for petitioners.

John C. Stophel, Stophel, Caldwell & Heggie, Chattanooga, filed brief amicus curiae, for Chattanooga Opthalmological Foundation.

Eugene N. Collins, City Atty., W. Lee Maddux, Sp. Counsel, John T. Henniss, County Atty., Howell G. Clements, Grant & Clements, P.A., Chattanooga, for respondents.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This suit involves challenges to the constitutionality of two private acts establishing the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority (hereinafter the "Hospital Authority"), 1976 Tenn. Priv. Acts ch. 297, as amended by 1977 Tenn. Priv. Acts ch. 125.

In substance, the 1976 Act created the Hospital Authority to operate Baroness Erlanger Hospital, T.C. Thompson Children...

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