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View Entry | Franklin Carriage Co., et al. v. City of Jackson (TN) | Madison | Sabbath Violation |
Addtl pltfs.: A. H. Askew; Louis Cook; J. J. Elvert, doing business under the name of 333 Tire & Vulcanizing Co.; John H. Johnson & Sons, a partnership of Neil Johnson & Norment Johnson; and Bryan Lyle, doing business under the name of American Gas & Oil Co. Addtl dfnts: Andrew Taylor, Chief of Police - Jackson; and R. L. Balch, Recorder of Jackson. Pltfs. were arrested for operating their businesses on Sundays and sued to prove the law unconstitutional, invalid, and void. |
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View Entry | H. Weatherbee v. State | Shelby | Sabbath Violation |
Unlawful Retailing on Sunday. Originating court is Municipal Court Memphis/Shelby, appeal to Western Division Supreme Court to be held at Brownsville, Haywood County. |
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View Entry | Joseph Gunter v. State | Cocke | Sabbath Violation |
Although not named in the case name, G. W Gunter, George Hooper, and Johnson Hooper were also accused of Sabbath breaking. These "evil disposed persons" were charged with squirrel hunting on a Sunday, evidencing their "manifest corruption of the public morals, to the evil example and common nuisance of all good citizens." |
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View Entry | Luther Everett (alias Lewis Everett) v. State | Knox | Sabbath Violation |
"Retailing liquor on Sunday." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
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View Entry | Mayor & City Council of Nashville v. J. H. Blodan | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Charged with keeping his saloon open on a Sunday. |
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View Entry | Max Fabish et al. v. City of Memphis | Shelby | Sabbath Violation |
Sabbath violation by conducting or operating a theatrical performance on Sunday. Additional plaintiffs: Paul Valedon, Thomas Reeder, M. Kehoe, George W. Beck, Lawrence Lehman, Mabel Sinclair, John Yerxes, Katie Amitis, Alfred Kelsey, Charles Norman, and Eugene Howard. |
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View Entry | Mayor & City Council of Nashville v. Fred Pullman | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Charged for keeping saloon open on a Sunday. |
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View Entry | Mayor & City Council of Nashville v. A. Feustal | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Keeping saloon open on Sunday. |
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View Entry | Mayor & City Council of Nashville v. Mrs. B. Lally | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Lally was accused of keeping her saloon open on Sunday. |
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View Entry | State v. S. C. Moore | Knox | Sabbath Violation |
"Retailing on Sunday." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
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View Entry | State v. Paul Lenzi | Shelby | Sabbath Violation |
Defendant found guilty of keeping his saloon open on Sunday, 28 May 1905, in violation of the law. |
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View Entry | State v. L. Keith | Shelby | Sabbath Violation |
Defendant originally found guilty of keeping a saloon open on Sunday, 18 June 1905. Fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days at hard labor in the county workhouse. |
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View Entry | State v. Jim Williams | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Williams tried & found guilty of selling liquor on Sunday, 3 Nov. 1907, & of "tippling" on that same day. Transcript of case only. Case designated Middle Tennessee, but filed in East Tennessee. |
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View Entry | State v. William Parson | Shelby | Sabbath Violation |
The defendant was charged with operating an establishment that sold liquor on a Sunday. |
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View Entry | State v. George Bomar | Warren | Sabbath Violation |
Defendant is charged with doing business on a Sunday. |
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View Entry | State v. Thomas Waters | Knox | Sabbath Violation |
Waters charged with breaking the Sabbath by butchering on Sunday against a statute. Waters filed a demurrer. |
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View Entry | State v. Lea Davis | Obion | Sabbath Violation |
Defendant indicted for unlawfully keeping his saloon open on Sunday, 6 Aug. 1896, and "retailing and selling spirituous vinous malt & intoxicating liquors at the time". |
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View Entry | State v. William Baker | Knox | Sabbath Violation |
Cause of Action: Retailing on Sunday. Judgments only, no other case documents included. |
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View Entry | State v. Bill Capps | Weakley | Sabbath Violation |
Defendant had been indicted for working on Sunday. Witness testified that he had been seen plowing his turnip patch, cutting corn stalks & doing other farm work on Sundays several times during the year. |
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View Entry | State v. Lonnie Kisner | Obion | Sabbath Violation |
Keeping open a Saloon on Sunday. |
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View Entry | State v. Jack Hayes | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
Hayes played baseball on Sunday - Failure to observe Sabbath |
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View Entry | State v. Henry J. Barker | Sullivan | Sabbath Violation |
The defendant is being charged with unlawfully selling liquor on Sunday. |
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View Entry | Wiliam Ragia v. State | Davidson | Sabbath Violation |
This case revolves around the business practices of William Ragia, a barber, who owned Ragia Barbor shop on Church St. in the City of Nashville. Plaintiff was discovered practicing his trade on Sunday, and was cited. The specific offense was 'keeping a bath room that is open to all others on Sunday'. Barbering, cutting hair, shampooing, and/or holding a bath house on Sunday was a misdemeanor in Tennessee at the time (1886). |
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