JURIST SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK(Continued from page one) to grant franchises to public serv- ; Ice corporations, subject to ap- ! proval by the state utilities commission, and that certain legislative acts had not divested the authorities of this right, as had been 1 contended.Judge Dewitt was born in Sumner county, near Castilian Springs, j but came to Nashville in early [ childhood with his parents. After ( attending public schools, he entered Vanderbilt University where he was awarded a degree in liberal ( arts.After three years of school teaching he went to Washington and studied law at night at what is now George Washington University while teaching school during the , day.. He received his law degree in 18OT and returned to Nashville ; where he practices lifs profession