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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 | 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. Green, et al. v. Bank of Tennessee | Bedford | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiffs: S.W. Green, Thomas Warren, C.A. Warren, and Samuel Thompson. Plaintiffs are appealing the charge of trespassing. |
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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 | 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 | 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 | A. T. Maxwell v. Wiseman Herrin | Putnam | Trespass and Damages |
Dispute over ownership of a tract of land in Putnam county. Plaintiff alleged that defendant wrongfully cut, removed, and sold valuable timber from the Plaintiff's land. The Sally Cronk Spring Branch is the disputed boundary. Plaintiff argued that the land was once owned by Marvel Marcum. |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A. M. Shadden v. A. P. Massengill | Jefferson | Trespass and Damages |
Massengill "has removed himself from the State or so obscures or conceals himself" to avoid paying Shadden $1,000 for trespass. Massengill accused of whipping Shadden w/hickory stick & keeping him from retrieving his mare at Rebel camp. Alexander Shadden said Massengill maliciously beat him w/sticks, forcibly took his blue roan mare, in June 1862. Massengill's mom says Jefferson County prejudiced agnst her son; asks for chg in venue |
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View Entry | A. R. Wood et al. v. Bank of Tennessee | Bedford | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiffs: William Wood, R. Rayburn, and Martin Hancock. |
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View Entry | Alexander Hodge v. Willis Blanton | Coffee | Trespass and Damages |
The Defendant buried a slave in the Plaintiff's family graveyard. Damages at $1000. |
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View Entry | A. C.& A. B. Beech v. Mark Young, admr. of M. Neal | Davidson | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Abram Trigg v. John Lynn | Hawkins | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Alexander Aiken v. James Morrow | Knox | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Anderson Walker, et al. v. Reuben West | Greene | Trespass and Damages |
Case file is incomplete. |
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View Entry | Alexander Hays et al. v. Alfred Hays | Greene | Trespass and Damages |
Add. Plaintiff: Rebecca Hays. |
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View Entry | Abraham B. Fickle, et al. v. Alfred Rockhold | Sullivan | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiff: John Preston. Court of Origin: Court of Pleas at Sullivan County. |
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View Entry | Aaron Schoolfield v. Robert Vernon | Bledsoe | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | A. W. McCasland v. Nashville, Chattanooga& St. Louis Rail Road Co. | Dickson | Trespass and Damages |
McCasland filed a plea of Trespass and Damages for the killing of one cow. |
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View Entry | A. L. Wright v. J. Q. A. Sprowls | Overton | Trespass and Damages |
Wright accuses Sprowls of cutting timber in his property without permission. |
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View Entry | Andrew Tarter v. William Larkins & Mariah Larkins, wife | Hawkins | Trespass and Damages |
Damages for $5,000.00. Wife's name is also spelled Maria. |
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View Entry | A. R. Wynne v. F. S. Belote | Sumner | Trespass and Damages |
This suit revolves around the removal of a fence between the adjoining properties of the plaintiff and the defendant. Plaintiff states defendant tore down the fence without his consent, leaving his 155 acres without protection from trespassing animals. Defendant then sold stone of said wall for $275. Plaintiff suing for $1000 damages from animals and his inability to cultivate said land, & to reimburse him for $500 he spent building new fence. Map in pencil pg. 15. |
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View Entry | Ann Marcum v. Thomas Chambers | Campbell | Trespass and Damages |
Chambers is accused of taking the mare of Marcum. |
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View Entry | A. G. Low v. Elisha Sizemore | Sevier | Trespass and Damages |
Response to another bill in which A.G. Low sued damages against E. Sizemore for dogging and killing two hogs, the property of said Low. The judgment was in favor of Low for one dollar plus court costs, but Low believed the judgment was unfair due to the damage done by Sizemore. |
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View Entry | Anna Bayless v. William Lay | Union | Trespass and Damages |
Lay sued for taking a horse worth $300 during the Civil War. Court ruled in favor of plaintiff Bayless for damages of $291. Anna Bayless, was married to Isaac Bayless, and was Anna Salling at time of theft. |
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View Entry | Anderson Carpenter & John R. Thompson, admr. v. Thomas Blackburn | Blount | Trespass and Damages |
Plaintiffs are the administrators of the will of Larkin Thompson (dec.). Plaintiffs are sued for damages in the sum of $500. |
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View Entry | A. W. Rosee v. William McCarry | Sevier | Trespass and Damages |
Plea of trespass for obtaining by and through his defendants agent a deed and possession of a tract of land in Blount county and for failing and refusing to comply with his defendants contract with the plaintiff to the plaintiffs damage of $50.00 |
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View Entry | Andrew Rader v. Samuel J. Moore | Greene | Trespass and Damages |
The defendant in error bought one hundred barrels of super-fine flour from the plaintiff in error for $555. The plaintiff in error is accused of accepting payment but failing to ship the flour. Plaintiff in error claims that payment was made in Confederate money which had no value and that the defendant in error fraudulently represented himself as an agent of the Confederate Government. |
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View Entry | A. L. Leinart v. John A. Smith & D. F. Smith | Union | Trespass and Damages |
Plaintiff accuses the defendants of harassment and threats of violence. The defendants believe that the plaintiff took a horse belonging to John A. Smith during the Civil War and sent a threatening letter to the plaintiff which is recorded in the case file. The Smiths are noted to be Union men and Leinart appears to have supported the Confederacy. |
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View Entry | Andrew Sharp v. East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia Rail Road Company | Knox | Trespass and Damages |
The plaintiff sued for when cars owned and operated by the defendant ran over and killed three of his hogs. sued for damages in the sum of $36. |
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View Entry | Benjamin P. Person v. Richard Napier | Davidson | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. John T. Jones et. al. | Davidson | Trespass and Damages |
Additional defendants: John Yeatman, Robinson Yeatman, Nancy T. Yeatman, Robert H. McEwen |
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View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. Archibald M. Pickens et al. | Bedford | Trespass and Damages |
Additional defendant John Mosely |
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View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. William White | Montgomery | Trespass and Damages |
Amount of damages $1500.00 |
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View Entry | Benjamin W. Richmond v. Tandy K. Witcher | Jackson | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Bartley Barnes v. James Thompson | Davidson | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. Edward H. Chaffin, et al. | Maury | Trespass and Damages |
Additional defendants: Richard C. Whiteside, B. Dufield, Henry J. Yeatman |
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View Entry | B. H. Green v. Daniel Brown | Maury | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Bank of East Tennessee v. George Churchwell, et al. | Knox | Trespass and Damages |
Case file is incomplete; brief only. |
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View Entry | B. F. Eaton, et al. v. P. J. Halpin | Humphreys | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiff: William Clark. Plaintiffs instituted this suit for Trespass and Conversion for taking and converting to defendant's own use three cords of Heading timber, the property of plaintiffs to their damage. |
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View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. William C. Mayfield et al. | Giles | Trespass and Damages |
Additional defendants - James T. Norvell and William S. Davenport Amount of damages $1000.00 |
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View Entry | Benjamin F. Moore v. Solomon Meadows | Marshall | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | Best& Co. v. Sewanee Mining Co. | Franklin | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Plaintiffs: Peter Best and Jacob Best. Exhibits include plat map. |
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View Entry | Bank of Tennessee v. G. W. Greer, et al. | Bedford | Trespass and Damages |
Additional Defendants: A. J. Greer, C. A. Warren, H. C. Scales, and F. F. Fonville. |
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View Entry | Byrd Shelton v. Luke Sellars | Perry | Trespass and Damages | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy |