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Additional defendants: H.H. Knox, A. Silcer, John W. Brown, G.W. Hixon and C.B. Champion. Justices of the Peace without any authority of law met and appointed James C. Conner as sheriff of Hamilton County and the other defendants as his deputies. A.B. Conner charged that said proceeding was illegal and therefore void and sued against defendants as usurpers of the sheriff office and they be restrained from performing his rightful duties as sheriff.

The Board of Commissioners voted in C.T. Kelley to replace the vacancy left by Leo Goodman as Commissioner of Public Utilities, Grounds and Buildings. When Leo Goodman returned he filed a petition of certiorari against the Board of Commissioners charging the illegality and invalidity of declaring the office vacant. The City of Memphis wished to be reimbursed for the salary paid to C.T. Kelly as the votes taken to put him in as Commissioner were made and void.

Taylor was Superintendent of the City Hospital in Memphis. Taylor claimed that Tate was illegally appointed as the Superintendent and was interfering with Taylor's ability to run the hospital. Includes a published copy of a Motion to Dismiss Writ of Error from the James Dolan v. E. H. Crump, Et. Al. case.

Case involves a dispute over the dismissal and appointment of Clerk and Master of the court.

Cause of Action: Plaintiffs removed from office. Order only.

The plaintiff was elected County Judge of Sullivan County in 1926 but claimed the defendant engineered legislative private acts to oust him.

$300K of bonds were set aside for the purpose of building new roadways in Blount County. The commissioners were accused of abandoning their duty to build the roads, of building roads in locations not authorized by statute. Suit was filed also to recover the money already paid for work done illegally.

Additional Defendants: Benjamin Gish, John W. Taylor. Settlement of accounts from Trustee of White County.

Cause of action: Resisting an officer (J. M. underwood in the official discharge of his duty.

Incomplete case file; volumes II & III only. Defendants were sued for failing to perform their duties as Justices of the Peace. Nicholson failed to gather the justices for meeting before a deadline, to elect various commissioners & to decide County financial appropriations.

Additional plaintiffs: T. J. Latham, G. V. Rambaugh(?), N. M. Jones, C. B. Moore, T. B.Haynes, B. L. Bridges, H. Furstenheim, and W. Y. Cyrode(?). Additional defendants: Temple's Board of Directors.

Opinion only. Humphreys County case found in East TN boxes.

The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant, challenging the right of Lonas to serve as one of the five members of the Knox County Highway Commission. The defendant's surname is sometimes listed as "Lones."

The defendants are accused of threatening and attempting to intimidate Solomon Wampler, a constable who was attempting to execute a warrant for the arrest of James A. Taylor.