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The petitioner claimed that the defendants wrongfully detained from Lovelace his minor child. The petitioner asked the court to grant writ of habeas corpus that the said child may be released from the custody of said Warters.

Fitzsimmons is complaining of being held illegally in the county jail.

Defendant claims he is being held without cause due to a governor’s warrant issued in Georgia for the charge of burglary. Defendant denies the charge and is seeking release. Exhibit materials include the original governor's warrant.

Cause of Action: petition for habeas corpus, defendant is an alleged fugitive from justice found in TN who allegedly committed the crime of larceny in GA.

Aliases for Zela E. Wills include Zela E. Rinehart and Zela E. Spellings.

Add def: N. A. Kemper. Pla. was convicted by the Caldwell (judge in the case) of several misdemeanors and ordered to pay fines and costs. Pla. was unable to make payment and sentenced to the county workhouse. T. A. Sykes, Wm. Perkins, and J. P. Rhines then delivered several notes to satisfy plaintiff’s costs and obtain his release. Def. later brought suit against said notes and received judgement. Pla. complained that he was then unlawfully re-arrested and placed in a workhouse to work off the debt.

Plaintiff was convicted of carrying a pistol and fined $50 and court costs. Unable to pay the fine, the Plaintiff was sentenced to the County Workhouse to pay off the debt. The Plaintiff then received a pardon from Tennessee Governor Robert L. Taylor; however, the state contends that the pardon only remitted the $50 fine and not the court costs. Therefore the state continued to hold the Plaintiff in custody.

Plaintiffs claim that they are being held illegally, that they have been charged with no crime. The names of the plaintiffs are different throughout the case record, where they are referred to as J. E. Faltsy (Faltys, Faultsy) and George M. Gilliam. They are managers of a traveling vaudeville show and insist they were arrested under false pretenses and should be released immediately.

Defendant was fined $50 on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, from which judgment he sought an appeal. Defendant failed to pay the fine.

Plaintiff claimed: April 3, 1849, defendant gained possession of plaintiffs child, Eliza Jane North, under pretense that said child had been bound to him by the court & refused to return her to her mother's custody. Defendant claimed the colored child was indentured to him, the bond a matter of court record.

Habeas Corpus proceeding that involved the custody of Burdine McCoy, granddaughter of plaintiff.

E.G. Murrell is Superintendent of the county workhouse. Oliver Helms was sentenced to 90 days in the workhouse for public drunkenness. He states that he was sentenced by a city judge who does not have the right to send him to the county workhouse.

The cause is listed as a writ of habeas corpus. John H. Betting claims he was unlawfully held against his will by R.D. Groves and forced to work at the city rock pile to work off a $25 fine for vagrancy.

Incomplete case file. Langston is charging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty at the police department of the City of Chattanooga. Police claim that he was a fugitive from justice from Georgia.

Plaintiffs claim that Dean lee Lawrence and Clarence Ronald Lawrence (minors) are being held against their will by their uncle, the Defendant.

Additional Cause of Action: Fraud. Habeas petition only.

Defendant also fighting charge of vagrancy. McDonald a steam boat mate who had been without work for some time.

Plaintiff seeks to avoid extradition to Georgia, petitions for writ of Habeus Corpus. Argues Georgia Warrant not based on affidavit properly filed before a magistrate. Judgment for defendant, upheld on appeal.

Plaintiff Holds that her brother, Willie Loudy, was jailed on a writ issued by a juvenile judge, Margaret McCampbell, which is outside the judge's jurisdiction given W. Loudy's age of 26. Add. Defendants: Dave Bowman.

Additional Plaintiffs: Preda Metcalf English. Additional Defendant: Inez Wing Sams. Complainants sought to overturn the adoption of their son, William McDaniel English, alias Danny English Sams, by the defendants.

Defendant as Warden for Petros Prison. Exhibits: correspondence, parole grant, court documents from The State v. Frank C. York, No. A - 1375 in the criminal court of Knox County.