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B.A. Williams is sued Welch and the Chero Cola Bottling Company for $1500.00 damages for injuries he suffered when Welch, driving a motor car for the Chero Cola Company, recklessly and negligently drove the car with great force against and upon the plaintiff and the horse he was riding. The impact of the collision hurled the plaintiff over a fence and prostrate, to the ground- rendering him unconscious until the next day.

2 folders. Cause of action: "Threats." "C. S. Martin, late of said County, laborer, heretofore, to wit, on the ___ day of July, A. D., 1918 in the County of Gibson aforesaid, then and there, unlawfully and feloniously did maliciously threaten to do bodily injury to one Bob Cobb with intent thereby to force said Bob Cobb to leave the State of Tennessee against his will against the peace and dignity of the State."

Plaintiff company is comprised of R. H. Hearn and J. J. Mingle and were engaged in the business of selling lumber and other building materials. The defendant owned a tract of land and set a contract with the plaintiffs for certain materials to erect a house on the property. He took a total of $451 worth of material, which he never paid despite an agreed upon contract to repay the debt in a certain time and action taken by the plaintiffs.

Additional plaintiffs listed in file. Add. defendants: Vernon Flowers, an infant without regular guardian. M. E. Flowers (dec'd) left the defendant a widow and administratrix and the plaintiffs as heirs. A tract of land was sold before his death, worth $2,500, $1,020 of which had been paid. Plaintiffs were to inherit the 3/5 share of the land from the deceased, the remaining portion belonging to the defendant. Pla. want to sell the land to pay off estate debts.

The dispute is over a tract of land of 85 acres that the dec. Cly Dement possessed. The chancellor decreed that the land be split between the plaintiff and defendant.

Pate is charged with "failure to work, grade and repair certain roads in the 19th civil district of said county" (Gibson).

Cause of action: forcing someone to do something against their will. Anglin is charged with "unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously" threatening to compel Marvin Palmer "to do an act against his will." The act was "to wade a pond and search it and a creek from one end to the other."