NORTHERN TELECOM, INC. v. TAYLOR


781 S.W.2d 837 (1989)

NORTHERN TELECOM, INC., Appellant, v. Dudley W. TAYLOR, Commissioner of Revenue, State of Tennessee, and W.J. Michael Cody, Attorney General and Reporter, State of Tennessee, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

December 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Gooch, Michael D. Sontag, Nashville, for appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., Joe C. Peel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellees.


OPINION

BEN H. CANTRELL, Special Justice.

This is an action by a taxpayer against the State Commissioner of Revenue and the Attorney General. The taxpayer seeks a declaratory judgment that the commissioner was authorized to refund the taxes in question or, in the alternative, that the commissioner's refusal to consider the refund deprives the plaintiff of its rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

The chancellor granted the state's motion to dismiss...

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