Case ID: tenn_126/html/0687-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. J. Denton et al. v. R. C. Miller et al.
    
    
      (Knoxville.
    
    September Term, 1912.)
    1. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Constitutional question abandoned on appeal does not give supreme court jurisdiction, and cause will be transferred to court of civil appeals.
    Where the hill charged the unconstitutionality of the statute (Acts 1907, ch. 236) under which the defendant county board of education was created, hut the question appears to be abandoned upon appeal, by failure of the brief of complainants to refer to the question, and there being nothing in the act which would justify the supreme court in taking up the question on its own motion, there is no constitutional question before the court, and the appellate jurisdiction is entirely with the court of civil appeals, and the cause will be transferred to that court.
    Acts cited and construed: Acts 1907, ch. 236.
    FROM RHEA.
    Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Rhea County.— T. M. McConnell and V. C. Allen, Chancellors,
    Givens, McKenzie & Frazier, for complainants.
    Miller & Swafford, for defendants.
   Per Curiam.

This cause presents a controversy wholly within the jurisdiction of the court of civil appeals, hut for the fact that the bill charges the unconstitutionality of chapter 236 of the Acts of 1907, under which the defendant county board of education was created. But this question seems to have been abandoned. It is not referred to in the brief of complainant’s counsel, and we see nothing in the act which Avould justify the court-in taking up- the question on its own motion. Under such circumstances there is no constitutional question before the' court, and the case'is entirely with the court of civil appeals. The cause is therefore ordered to be transferred to that court.

A "copy of this opinion will be attached to the record and accompany the transfer.