MORRIS v. SNODGRASS


886 S.W.2d 761 (1994)

William N. MORRIS, Jr., Mayor of Shelby County; Ronald Bishop, Superintendent of Shelby County Workhouse; A.C. Gilless, Sheriff of Shelby County, Petitioners/Appellants, v. William R. SNODGRASS, Tennessee State Comptroller of Treasury; Tennessee State Department of Corrections, and Commissioner W. Jeff Reynolds, and Charles W. Burson, State Attorney General, Defendants/Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, at Nashville.

June 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian L. Kuhn, Shelby County Atty., Donnie E. Wilson, Executive Asst. County Atty., Memphis, for petitioners/appellants.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Ann Louise Vix, Sr. Counsel, Financial Div., Nashville, for defendants/appellees.


No Application for Permission to Appeal was Filed. Published with approval of this Court as provided by Rule 11 Rules of the Court of Appeals.

OPINION

TODD, Presiding Judge.

Officials of Shelby County brought this action against officials of the State of Tennessee for a declaratory judgment that T.C.A. Sections 55-10-103 and 40-25-129 are unconstitutional, and that the State is obligated to share the expense resulting from said statutes. The...

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