# City of Elizabethton v. Carter County

> Tennessee Supreme Court · December 12, 1958 · 204 Tenn. 452

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8303690

## Case

- **Full name:** City of Elizabethton, Tennessee v. Carter County, Tennessee
- **Court:** Tennessee Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 12, 1958
- **Citations:** 204 Tenn. 452; 8 McCanless 452; 321 S.W.2d 822; 1958 Tenn. LEXIS 276
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Swepston
- **Judges:** Swepston, Tomlinson
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining, as an example of a statute that was clearly unconstitutional on its face, one that attempted to establish an inferior court without following the process mandated in Article 6, Sections 1 and 4 of the Tennessee Constitution.

## Opinion text

On Petition to Rehear
Swepston, Justice.
Tbe petition to rehear filed in behalf of Carter County, et al., is respectfully overruled, as it presents no new matter of law or fact that was overlooked or not considered when the original opinion was prepared.

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