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View Entry | Archibald C. White v. Isaac C. Thomas | Lincoln | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Andrew G. Pickett v. Martin W. Sloan, et al. | Smith | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Archibald Sloan and Samuel T. Coker. |
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View Entry | Alexander F. McFerrin& Benton L. McFerrin v. Albert Perry | Cannon | Trespass and Damages |
Case concerns detaining a 7 year old mare. |
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View Entry | A. J. Simpson et al. v. Sallie Poe, et al | Franklin | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: Fitzpatrick, Gregory & Davis, and A. S. Calyun. Additional Defendants: James Poe and Gregory Poe |
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View Entry | A. M. McCoin v. Lou McCoin | Jackson | Land and Title Dispute | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Allen Jones v. Hannah Jones, et al. | White | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Jasper Anderson and Joseph Healdenfield. File also includes a contested will. |
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View Entry | A. Morrisson v. W. P. Roberts | Davidson | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Roberts claims that Morrisson intentionally misrepresented his position as superintendent. |
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View Entry | Alpha Young v. Adam Butler et al. | Warren | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: John James and A. Wheless. |
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View Entry | A. R. Wood et al. v. J. R. G. Scales | Bedford | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiffs: James Word, M.W. McClure, James Johnson, and S.S. Hayes. Plaintiffs are appealing the Defendants original charges. |
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View Entry | A. Kline v. Elisha Long | Davidson | Land and Title Dispute | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Allen Wallace v. B. Featherston, et al. | Bedford | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendants: Farwick Frazier, John Norville, John Newbill, and Richard Cardwell. |
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View Entry | A. C. Cobbs v. Elizabeth C. Cobbs et al. | Giles | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Andrew Alernatly, John Woldridge, Jesse Cobbs, Margaret Cobbs, Alison Cobbs, William Lainer, and Meredith Connelly. Case also includes a contested will. |
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View Entry | Absalom Foshee v. Enoch Collins | McMinn | Trespass and Damages |
Collins sued Foshee and several other defendants for trespass and damages of $40,000 for taking and converting to their own use Collins' personal property, including: horses, mules, hogs, bushels of corn, wheat, hay, cattle, sheep, etc. Collins also suing for being maliciously forced out of his house, destroying his farm houses and other property while def'ts occupied them as camping grounds. Suit began in 1865. |
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View Entry | A. L. Campbell v. John Seahorn | Jefferson | Land and Title Dispute | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Adam Meek v. J. Perriman | Jefferson | Land and Title Dispute | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Augustine Jenkins v. Elizabeth Gilliand | Cocke | Land and Title Dispute |
Deposition only. |
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View Entry | A. E. Jackson v. C. H. Gillespie, et al. | Carter | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendant: N. G. Taylor. Others involved: E. E. C. Gillespie, C. R. Gillespie, and [?] G. Taylor Case file is incomplete. Index included. |
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View Entry | A. L. Ginn v. Forest Nursery Company | Warren | Injury and Damages |
Opinion only. Warren County case found in East TN boxes. |
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View Entry | American National Bank v. E. H. Murray, et al. | Davidson | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Although case was collected with the Eastern Division, it lists a Middle Tennessee County of origin. Case file is incomplete; brief only. Possibly related to case file in MT 442. Also included in ET OV 4 is an oversize account ledger dating 1909-1912. |
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View Entry | Augusta Finger v. H. E. Walter& Company, et al. | Shelby | Trespass and Damages |
Other defendants: Ernest Archer; A. J. McLendon; Sheriff W. R. Duke; D. S. Robertson; O. K. Robertson. |
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View Entry | Athens Roller Mills, Inc. v. Mrs. Kittie Reynolds | McMinn | Injury and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Alice Cora Mayes & William L. Mayes v. Walter Clark | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Receipt included. |
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View Entry | A. R. Weaks v. The German Insurance Company | Madison | Insurance Claims and Policies | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Alexander Guy v. Fischer & Burnett Lumber Company | Anderson | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff sued the defendant company for $2,000 in damages for negligently employing the plaintiff's 12-year-old son, Charles Guy, to use said saw without proper training or consent, resulting in the loss of the child's right arm. |
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View Entry | Albert A. Able v. Mutual Benefit Health& Accident Association | Washington | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff is sued for full payment of claim on policy covering loss of right foot. Exhibits include photo static copy of insurance policy, insurance policies and documents, correspondences. |
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View Entry | Arlington Insurance Company & Citizens Insurance Company v. M. M. Towle | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claims the condition and use of the property insured is in violation of the warranty policy and refused to pay the policy. |
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View Entry | Adele S. Kennedy et al. v. Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc. | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Truck driven by Defendant struck car in which Plaintiff was riding, causing her to be injured. Exhibits include repair bill, scene map. Add. Plaintiff: Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey. |
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View Entry | A. T. McLendon v. The Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World,& the Woodmen of the World | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Exhibits include insurance policy information. |
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View Entry | Annie Brookins v. Tennessee Coach Co., Inc. | Greene | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff was travelling on a bus operated by the defendants when she was injured in a collision. Exhibits include 4 xrays. |
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View Entry | Annie Goodwin Steele v. Endowment Rank Knights of Pythias | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claimed that defendant owed her $4000 on a "certificate of benefits" after the death of her husband, J. K. Steele. |
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View Entry | A. A. Green v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $2,000.00 |
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View Entry | Annie Martin & husband v. St. Louis & San Francisco Rail Road Co. | Shelby | Trespass and Damages |
Mrs. Martin is sometimes referred to as Ann Martin or Anna Martin; her husband is T. F. Martin. Plaintiffs accuse the railroad company of parking train cars on the track in front of their home and business for days at a time, hindering travel, blocking access to their business, shutting out light and air, making it impossible to find and keep tenants, and lowering the value of their property. |
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View Entry | Arkansas River Packet Co. & Charles Price v. Amos Westbrook | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit includes black and white photograph of the Steamboat Delta parked along an embankment. Charles Price was first mate aboard the Steamboat Delta and was accused of assaulting Westbrook while he was unloading a buggy causing the buggy to fall on him. |
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View Entry | Annie M. Prescott v. Blount Plow Works & Reese Boulders | Madison | Injury and Damages |
Damages for personal injury for being dragged by a truck. |
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View Entry | American National Insurance Co. v. Cora Lee Widby | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Alice M. Umstattd v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Sullivan | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Includes insurance policy contract. |
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View Entry | Annie Davis v. Luther Bentrum | Hamilton | Forcible Entry and Detainer | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | A. J. Smartt v. North Carolina & St. Louis Rail Road Co. | Coffee | Injury and Damages |
Sues for $5,000 for damages while in the employment of the defendant. |
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View Entry | Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Clara Mournan, admr. of William Mournan, dec. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Allen Hurst v. James Selvidge | Grainger | Trespass and Damages |
The damage was for $5000 for slanderous and defamatory words spoken and uttered by the defendant. |
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View Entry | A. P. Massengill v. A. M. Shadden | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Additional Cause of Action: Trespass. Date: Unknown. Opinion only. |
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View Entry | Alexander Galbraith v. John & Samuel Seiber, Common School Commissioners | Anderson | Contract for Labor and Materials |
Galbraith had been hired to teach at the unfinished school located near the widow Rector's. Salary would be $14 per month. Locals would furnish the building materials for Galbraith to finish the school. Others involved: William Hogshead, Moses Overton, William Peak, Richard Oliver, Joseph Galbraith, Elias Butcher. Case may be of interest to those studying antebellum Tennessee education. |
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View Entry | Andrew J. Rhea v. William M. Grace | Greene | Trespass and Damages |
The plaintiff claims that the defendant removed railings from said fence to construct his own fence. Partial record. Transcript of the record. "Appeal prayed at October Term, 1857." "A plea of trespass on the case by throwing down a fence and turning out his meadow & wheat field to the public to his damage fifty dollars." |
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View Entry | Arthur St. John v. The East Tennessee & Georgia Rail Road Company | McMinn | Trespass and Damages |
Trespass and damage in the sum of $4,000. A train conductor of the company allegedly purposefully ran down and killed a Negro boy worth $1,200 and several heads of cattle owned by the plaintiff. |
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View Entry | Ale Hatfield v. Nathaniel Hamon | Campbell | Trespass and Damages |
Defendant allegedly unlawfully took possession of a part of a tract of land belonging to the plaintiff. sued for damages of $50. |
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View Entry | Albriten Burgess, by next friend Viola Burgess v. Mrs. Frances E. Mason & H.E. Mason | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff alleges the defendants are justly indebted to A. Burgess in the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the minor by the defendants when they hit the plaintiff on his bicycle in their automobile. |
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View Entry | Ada Lewis v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
2 folders. Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $5,000 for her injuries sustained as she was disembarking a train car owned and operated by the defendant and the conductor, without warning, closed the door and started off with the plaintiff's hand caught in the gate of the door. She was pulled along the street with great force, injuring her legs, back, neck, and internal organs. |
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View Entry | Andrew Hutsell v. Allen Dennis, Sr. & G. Farmer | McMinn | Trespass and Damages |
sued for damages in the sum of $5,000. Plaintiff's case was judged to be worth damages in the sum of $1,500. |
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View Entry | Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Company v. North America Realty Company of Milwaukee, Wis, et al | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Add. defendants: Erwin C. Uihlein, individually & Erwin C. Uihlein, Trustee. |
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View Entry | A. Glassman, et ux. v. R. C. Willis, et al. | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Appellants, partners Willis and Crittenden, entered into a building contract with appellees to build a house. Crittenden borrowed $600.00 from his bank on the strength of the building contract. However, Crittenden died before a bond was put in place. Appellants are arguing that, since Crittenden was the most capable partner and he died before execution of the bond, that the sureties should not be held. |
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