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Plaintiff is sued for damages during which his automobile stalled on the railroad tracks and ultimately was hit by the defendant. Plaintiff claims it was beyond his control that the engine failed and believes the defendant was negligent for failing to stop. 3 folders.

Additional plaintiffs: Goldie Bell, Greer Newberry, Percy Hughes, George Duglass, Ella Batchlor alias Ella Smallwood. All were charged with breaking into Reynold-Margrave Company with the intent to steal a suit, a hat, two pairs of shoes, a shirt, and four caps.

2 folders. Butler seeks $10,000 damages for personal injuries and damage to personal property in an automobile accident. The accident occurred on May 31, 1923. Butler was driving his car South on Mississippi Blvd. and turning onto Trigg Ave. "when the defendant's car, a Packard then being driven South on Mississippi Blvd….at a highly dangerous rate of speed ran into upon and against the plaintiff's car."

Plaintiff is sued the defendants for debt under $1000 for the sale of two mules. W. S. Nance (dec.). Plaintiff alias: Bernice Nance.

plaintiff in error case; unlawfully detaining a certain tract of land with a house in the 7th civil district of Hardin County

Additional defendants: T. H. Tutwiler, receivers of Memphis Street Railway. Defendants removed 4 tracks on the street outside the plaintiffs place of business. Later they filled in the crevices with loose materials. Afterwards a car that was driving by threw up some of the loose materials from its wheel busting the plate glass window of the defendants business.

Some documents say Max Plesofsky. Plea of debt due by sworn itemized statement for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered to defendant at his insistance. Under $500.00. Includes itemized statement for goods, wares and merchandise sold to defendant, affidavit to claim.- Correspondence between Shlby Jobbing House and Blue Ridge Overalls, letters regarding merchandise, camcelled checks to Blue Ridge Overalls,

"Chick Cummings was manager of the Memphis Red Sox Baseball Club, that played at Red Elm in the Southern colored baseball league, and was employed about February 22nd to start getting the team for the year. He went to work and gotta good team, had the team in first place, was sent back home about July…from New Orleans, by the club owner to make certain arrangements about the ball park, and while he was back here he was fired as manager of the club."

Fuqua and F. C. Streufert owned a mill in Humboldt, Tennessee. Stout bought one-half interest of the defendant in the mill for $10,000. $2500 was paid down. The deed did not pass and "there was no paper writing so that under the Statute of frauds he was entitled to recover" his $2500 from the defendant. Stout seeks to have the purchase contract set aside due to fraud.

Plaintiff is sued for $10,000 for damages. Charles Roe, a minor was seriously injured when he was struck by a truck being driven by a negro named Dan Jones who worked for Blumnefeld Ice & Coal Co.

Additional defendants: Memphis Artesian Water Department, F. G. Prout, M. J. Anderson, Thomas F. Stratton and A. Schwab. Plaintiff sued for $1,000 in damages after his son, Fern Crocker stepped into a ditch on the sidewalk. Plaintiff claims the city is negligent in leaving the ditch open and unprotected.

Additional defendants: Willie Adolphus Taliaferro, Euphasia Taliaferro, William Edwin Taliaferro, Robert Lewis Taliaferro, Mildred Watts, Marcellous L,. Taliaferro, James Taliaferro, and Olie Taliaferro. Exhibits include pages 354-383 of the "Southwestern Reporter."

3 folders. Miss Hodges is sued for $30,000 damages for personal injuries caused to her when a truck operated by an employee of Dry Block Mercantile drove up on the sidewalk and hit her.

Cause of action: Practicing medicine without a license. Defendant is a licensed Chiropractor and has a license to sell medicine, under the name of Dr. D. W. Medcalf & Company. "All the medicine sold has printed directions on the bottle or package, telling what ailments it is for and directions for taking it…He has frequently told those calling, that these medicines are recommended for certain diseases, and sold the medicine just as a druggist or groceryman would sell patent or proprietary medicine."

Plaintiff is sued the defendants for $5000 for personal injuries sustained when his bicycle collided with an automobile driven by defendants. 2 folders

Bethany is the administrator for the estate of her husband, Isiah Bethany, dec. Plaintiff is sued for compensation for her husband's death after he was killed by a falling log while working for the defendant.

E.B. Marshall, trading and doing business as Wilbur Stock Food Co., entered into a written agreement with C. McPeak where McPeak guaranteed full payment for all goods ordered by one W.A. Freezor. Marshall alleges that McPeak owns a balance of $460.28 plus interest for goods. Exhibits: numerous company bills for products, financial records, handwritten correspondence. File in 2 folders and in both box WT1746 and WT1748.

2 folders. Addl. plaintiff: Lilly J. Smith. Addl. defendants: Peter Fyfe, W.S. Mayes. Mrs. Smith bought land with a building used as a hotel and store on it. She borrowed $6000 from Garner to purchase the property. Garner required 3 notes amounting to $11,000. The Smiths fell behind in payments and the property was sold to Mayes. The Smiths, "believing that a fraud had been practiced upon them," filed suit to "set aside" and cancel the sale of the property and to recover the value of their furniture.

Two broadsides only. Announcement for the auction of Pricket Dairy Farm. J. P. King Auction Company, Tullahoma, Tennessee. Original case unknown.

There was an affidavit and warrant for the arrest of I R Eubanks and A J Williams for trespassing by entering the hall of the Knights of Columbus without authority or consent. A third count was added to the declaration: A. J. Williams charges that F.O. Howell, acting as agent for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, without cause procured a warrant for arrest to be issued. Williams is suing for $20,000.00 damages. Includes a booklet- Constitution and Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Incorporated).

Additional defendants: D.J. Thomas, Elmer Wilkins, J.J. Raines, J.T. Wyatt, J.M. Dean, and Katherine Elizabeth Ross. Housed in 2 folders.

The Easleys married on July 20, 1919, in South Fulton. They lived in Fulton, Ky., after their marriage until Frank found employment in Dyersburg. Ruth moved to Dyersburg for a while before taking their son, Frank Jr., to Fulton, Ky., to visit her father. Mr Easley reported that "she has been there now between 2 & 3 months and refuses to return to him in Dyersburg or live with him or to see him or let him visit or see their only child." He also claimed that Mrs. Easley aborted their 2nd child.

2 folders. Additional plaintiffs: George W. Sellers, N. A. Sellers, T. A. Sellers, P. G. Sellers, Sarah L. Sellers, Jerry Sellers, Starling Grant, Mary Grant, Louise Grant, Emma L. Grant. Additional defendant: S. C. Grant. G. L. and Mildred L. Grant are both children of N. S. Grant, deceased, "and the other complainants are grandchildren of N. S. Grant." Mildred owns property, deeded to her, that G. L. claims was bought and paid for by their father and should be divided among his heirs.

Plaintiff sued defendant to recover a deficiency judgment for the balance of an alleged mortgage indebtedness evidenced by a promissory note executed by B. B. Kirkpatrick & wife and Fred B. Young and wife, which debt complainant alleges was assumed by the defendant. Exhibits include warranty deed. Printed brief included.