ILLUSTRATION DESIGN GROUP, INC. v. McCANLESS


454 S.W.2d 115 (1970)

ILLUSTRATION DESIGN GROUP, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. George F. McCANLESS et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Dale, III, and Robert H. Dedman, Nashville, for plaintiff-appellant, Illustration Design Group, Inc.

James M. Manire and Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Memphis, for intervenor-appellant, City of Memphis.

Eugene Collins and Randall L. Nelson, Chattanooga, for intervenor-appellant, City of Chattanooga.

W. Raymond Denney and Clifford Allen, Nashville, for intervenor-appellant, Clifford Allen, Metropolitan Tax Assessor of Nashville-Davidson County, Tenn.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Milton P. Rice, Deputy Atty. Gen., Paul Jennings, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edwin F. Hunt, Special Counsel, Nashville, for defendants-appellants, George F. McCanless, Joe C. Carr, William Snodgrass, Harlan Matthews and Charles E. Worley.


OPINION

FELTS, Justice, Retired.

This suit was brought by the Illustration Design Group, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, suing as a taxpayer, under the Declaratory Judgments Act1 seeking a decree declaring Chapter 421, Public Acts of 1968 (as amended), unconstitutional and enjoining official action thereunder by defendant state officials, George F. McCanless, Attorney General; Joe Carr, Secretary of State; William Snodgrass, Comptroller...

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