APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

This appeal involves a constitutional challenge by the Mall of Memphis  Associates (the Mall) to an increase in its property value by the Assessor of Property for Shelby County, Tennessee (the Assessor). The respondents, Tennessee State Board of Equalization (the Board) and Rita C. Clark,1 the Assessor, appeal the judgment of the chancery court voiding an increase in the property assessment for the petitioner, the Mall. The chancery court held that the Board’s reappraisal of the Mall’s property violated the Mall’s Fourteenth Amendment rights of equal protection under the United States Constitution.

This appeal arises from the probate of the Last Will and Testament of Maple Ione Stocks (Stocks) in the Chancery Court of Obion County. The co-administratrices C.T.A., Gwyneth J.
Hughes (Hughes) and Linda Lyons (Lyons), appeal the order of the chancery court vacating the 2 order admitting Stocks’s will to probate because of a lack of jurisdiction and/or venue, which was made final pursuant to Tenn. R. Civ. P. 54.02.