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Guardianship allowance issues. Additional Defendants: Unknown.

Additional plaintiffs: Riley Ramsey, David De Armond. Property lines in dispute from an early land grant. See related ejectment case, Oswald Sharp Heirs v Riley Ramsey in ET 1960.

File consists only of plaintiff's brief.

In 1881 defendant sued to collect $5000 in pay for services rendered to the company. B. F. Fly & Robert F. Looney named as stockholders. Company based in Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico. Chartered in TN in 1878 by B. F. Fly, Robert F. Looney, Thomas P. Chambers, Robert F. Looney, Jr. & T. W. Brown.

Plaintiff sues for $ 10,000 as damages for an injury. Plaintiff owned a house next to a building defendant rented, a brick partition separating them. The partition helped hold the roof up on plaintiff's house. The defendant's accidently broke the wall down, wrecking plaintiff's house.

Additional defendant: Andrew Gregory. Deed of trust containing a power of sale. Exhibit materials include deed of trust, trustees sales.

Additional parties: J. H. Harrell, dec., J. M. Brannock, Mary Brannock

W. L. Doss owned a tract of land and conveyed land to Swaffer. Jane, Doss’s wife, would not sign the contract and it was never registered in the Register’s office. Doss moved the family to a poorer farm against Jane's wishes and she later filed suit to recover the land from Swaffer. Next friend Thomas L. Dixon. 90 pages in ET1940

Add. defendants: D.J. Hoppard, John R. Wallace, R.S. Montgomery, & Thomas Montgomery. Plaintiff is the owner of two notes totaling $2,000 from the defendant firm. They failed to pay the notes on time and are now indebted to the plaintiff.

Reason & Zachariah B. are brothers contesting ownership of a tract of land, the circumstances of the Civil War complicated things. Z. was involved in 1864 capture of Young Harris, who was charged as Federal spy. Z. had to flee the county & turned the land over to R. R. was named in a damage suit by a Union soldier, Cox. Cox beat & threatened him and R. fled, leaving the land for Z. to care for. Upon their return, the brothers attempted to settle the land dispute. 267 pages in ET1936

Defendant is accused of refusing to serve as a grand juror when regularly summoned by the Sheriff.

S. D. McClure had died. Other complainants: Nannie L. McClure, Mary E. McClure, filed by next friend A. S. Myers. Other defendants: J. M. Cannon, A. B. Hill, S. E. Gardner, William Bridgewater, & A. Goldsby. R. B. Miller, as public guardian, is said to have taken more as his fee than the law allows and is being sued to return the money he overcharged the estate.

Additional defendants listed as Tammy McCarty, John McCarty, unknown heirs of E. McCarty, J. A. Everett and wife, and W. W. McDowell.

The State deposed Clarke in the case of T. N. Christian v. John E. Clarke et al. and a crossbill, claiming the court had jurisdiction over the parties and the land/house in question, of which Clarke was said to have taken illegal possession by breaking down the door to the home.

The State charged the Wards with obstructing a public highway leading from Ridge Road to Tucker's Creek Road by putting rails across the road. Exhibit is a small hand-drawn map of the area of road that was obstructed and the surrounding properties.

Defendant is accused of contempt of court for his refusal "to answer questions put to him on the witness stand." The case in question was State v. John Wendell, which concerned his selling liquor on Sunday.

Actual charge is selling cotton after dark, "between the hours of sunset and sunrise."

Defendants were charged with selling liquor within four miles on an institution of learning. Windham was accused of using a false prescription for brandy to get liquor from Dunlop’s pharmacy which is within one half mile of Pure Fountain College.

The case includes four charges against McClellan for selling liquor to J. W. Campbell without a license. The four charges are divided into four separate cases but there is only one docket number and each charge occurred on the same date.

Opinion of the court.