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STATE EX REL. GROOMS v. CITY OF NEWPORT

No. E2011-00105-COA-R3-CV

415 S.W.3d 250 (2011)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Bettye GROOMS, et al. v. The CITY OF NEWPORT, Tennessee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Section, at Knoxville.

October 17, 2011.

Application for Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court February 15, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Buuck , Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Bettye Grooms, Edna Bush, John Clark, Clayton Owenby, Charles Edmonds, Donnie Miller, Kathy Miller, A.R. Kyker, Tennessee Tobacco Sales, Inc., Kevin Wilder, Jimmy Miller, Jimmy Fox, Nora Freshour, Arlie C. Mason, Patty Jenkins, and Elizabeth Dewey Strange.

Charlton R. Devault, Jr. , Kingsport, Tennessee, and Terry Hurst , Newport, Tennessee, for the appellee, the City of Newport, Tennessee.

OPINION

D. MICHAEL SWINEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which CHARLES D. SUSANO, JR., and JOHN W. McCLARTY, J.J., joined.

The City of Newport ("Newport") sought to annex certain properties in Cocke County. A number of affected parties ("the Plaintiffs") objected to the annexation and filed a complaint against Newport in the Chancery Court for Cocke County ("the Trial Court"). The Trial Court held that the Plaintiffs had failed to carry their...

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