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$5000 damages for firing a revolver and striking Fannie Atchley causing her to lose the third finger on her right hand.

Plaintiff seeking $5000 for breach of contract for safe passage on a train from Memphis to Little Rock; suffered great physical pain and mental anguish.

Add. defendants: Allyn Jones & Memphis Storage Company. Plea of debt due by conversion of one bed room set of furniture, valued at $94.

Trenham is attempting to collect on an insurance policy after the death of her husband.

Additional defendant: Charles Smith. Additional name associated with the case: Sarah Kimball. The case has been placed in two folders.

2 folders. Exhibit materials in folder 2. Original bill specified action for premium for a damages and bodily injury insurance claim. Poag was injured on the job but insurance company refused to pay. Includes petition to rehear trial.

The parties in this case, brother sister, both inherited a sizeable estate but the plaintiff was judged to be unsound mind, so the management of the estate went to the defendant. Additional Defendant: Louis Ginocchio. 8 folders. See WT 1126 for additional folders of case.

B. H. Horowitz was engaged in the merchant tailoring business in Memphis. A fire in plaintiff's business, 1 Aug. 1912, located at No. 482, S. Main St. Agent for Concordia- Harry B. Mauss, Memphis. Defendant company, Concordia Fire Insurance Co., failed for pay for loss of business. Court decision appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court at Jackson. Two folders.

Action brought to recover seven acres of land with the improvements made on it. Plaintiffs claim land under a grant from the state but Grimes states the state never held a title to the land. Land formerly owned by the Chickasaw Indian tribe, acquired by the government.

Plaintiff, Bonner Thomasson, sued by his next friend, C. D. Thomasson- both residents of Shelby Co., sued defendants, Western Union Telegraph Co., and C. H. Carroll, an employee of said company, for sum of $2,000.00, result of assault, 31 Dec. 1912, upon defendant Thomasson who was attempting to collect (wages?). Defendant had been discharged as result of labor strike by messenger boys against company. Carroll threatened bodily harm against defendant.

Recovery of $38.05. Most of the case materials are made up of motions to dismiss the appeal for the case. The reason for recovering $38.05 could not be determined.

The folder contains only a petition for writ of error and a petition to file supplemental assignments of error, no other case files. The original case was filed to recover contracted commissions for the sale of a tract of land.

Additional defendants: Lizzie Dirmeyer. Property: Drug store on Poplar St. Exhibits include checks and receipts.

Cause of action: stealing and carrying away one case of hosiery valued at $160.00. Southern Railway Company owned this property. Also charged with receiving stolen property.

The debt was for $100.00, due by contract as part payment for the purchase of real estate to which the plaintiff was agent.

The defendant contracted to sell 500 tons of good, sound cotton seed by February 1st, 1914. On December 23,1913 complainant went to inspect cotton seed to be shipped and found that it was below quality he had contracted for. Defendant told complainant he had sold the cotton seed to other parties and would not be shipping any seed to complainant. Also included are 2 booklets: 1) Petition for Certiorari and Assignment of Errors, Brief in support. 2) Defendants answer to petition of certiorari.

Suit for unpaid life insurance policy. Exhibits include Certificate of Membership, Death Benefit Certificate, Members' Receipt Book, and Constitution, By-Laws, and Charter of The Grand Fraternity. Some exhibits affixed to pages in case transcripts.

Plaintiff brought this suit to settle the right to the estate of Norvelle Sanders. Plaintiff's claim that Emma Sanders was not the wife of the deceased and that she had come into the possession of the notes by scheme, trick or device.

Plaintiff administrator of the estate of Charles Rembert, Jr. (dec.). C. Rembert, Jr. was 14 years old, under the employment of defendants. Family claims negligence on the part of the company where they forced the boy to work in an unsafe environment in that an elevator shaft with a faulty door was present and down which C. Rembert, Jr. fell and died from his sustained injuries. Suing for $25,000 in damages.

Plaintiff is sued for $5,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for damaging his limousine Cadillac automobile.

Diamond Seed Co of Springfield, MO; Busch Grace Co of Memphis, TN; complainant seeks $135.64 for purchase of mixed peas to be delivered in board cars to Memphis, TN Ex. A and B: telegrams between companies

Additional defendants'. C. Nixon, Thomas H. West, receiver for St. Louis and San Francisco Rail Road Company and Nashville and Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Co. Includes three photographs of railroad car.

Life insurance policy dispute over policy of Elmer Ellsworth Goodlander, dec. 18 October 1912, husband of the plaintiff. The defendant alleges the policy was insolvent prior to the death of the policy holder. Court decision was appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court at Jackson.