Memphis Greenspace Inc., the nonprofit organization that recently removed Confederate statues from two parks, must keep and preserve the monuments, a court ordered this week.
Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle on Monday barred the nonprofit from selling, giving or moving the statues of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, President Jefferson Davis and Capt. J. Harvey Mathes pending a "contested case hearing" before the Tennessee Historical Commission sometime within the next 60 days.
The commission, which rejected the city's request for a waiver to remove the Forrest statue in October, will determine whether the city violated state law when it sold the parks and statues to Greenspace for a total of $2,000 on Dec. 20, 2017, making the parks and the statues private property.
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