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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1839 | Anthony Dibrill& Jesse Lincoln v. William Galt, et al. | Warren | Slaves, Selling of |
Additional defendants: B. F. Miller, John Pain |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 201 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1882 | A. J. Winter& Co. v. Henry Ohlmacher | Warren | Non-payment of Goods/ Wages/ Servic | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 52 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1853 | Billy Kelly, a slave v. Thomas C. Smart | Warren | Slaves, Ownership of | Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 421 | 68 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Catherine Wynn v. J. F. Munford et al. | Warren | Guardianship of Minors |
Additional Defendants: E. W. Taylor. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | C. W. Prior and wife Jesse Prior v. Henry M. Coleman | Warren | Land, Sale of |
March 1871, Prior's purchased of Coleman 2 tracts of land in DeKalb County. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant told them that the land was well adapted for stock raising, good grazing land, a probability for an early extension of the railroad and had a first class institution for learning. The plaintiffs claimed that all this was false except for the grazing. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 21a | 64 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1850 | Daniel Linean v. George R. Smart | Warren | Breach of Trust |
Concerns the ownership and opening of tavern houses. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 230 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | Falcon Roller Mill Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co. | Warren | Breach of Contract |
Falcon Roller Mill Co. sued "for negligently, willfully, and maliciously failing to transmit and deliver a certain message" resulting in $200 of lost business. Housed in 2 folders. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 882 | 188 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1819 | Heirs of William White v. Commissioner of McMinnville | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Dispute over the sale of a plot of land in Warren County |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 366 | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1818 | Jacob Lane v. John A. Wilson | Warren | Non-Payment of Debt |
Lane obtained a judgement against Wilson for $370. Wilson was put in debtor's jail. A survey was filed for a tract of land on Wilson's behalf. Wilson was found to have purchased land from W. Gibbs. Wilson was named insolvent, owing multiple parties money. Lane sued to recover the debt through the sale of Wilson's land or otherwise. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 4a | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1819 | Jacob Alan v. John A. Wilson & James McEwen & William White v. John A. Wilson & James McEwen | Warren | Non-Payment of Debt |
In 1815, Thomas Brown obtained a judgment against White on security for Wilson for $300. Then they obtained a judgment against Wilson for $1,800, but Wilson was insolvent. James McEwen then filed a bill of interpleader against Wilson for $500, as leverage for the debt, Wilson had mortgaged an enslaved worker. The suit was filed to settle each of these complaints. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 5a | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | Joel O. Thacker v. James C. Chambers et al. | Warren | Slaves, Selling of |
Additional Plaintiffs: Joseph Hickerton, William Watson, John G. Waeker, Jesse Worton, and John A. Johnston, dec. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 215 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1845 | Jesse Webb, et al. v. Thomas H. Hopkins | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional plaintiff: William Hayes. Amount of land in dispute: 175 acres |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 220 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1882 | J. P. Scott et al. v. R. H. Mason et al. | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional Complainant: W. L. Clark. Additional Defendants: F. M. Smith, E. J. Stubblefield, W. J. Morrow, P. H. Coffee, and W. V. Whitson. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 54 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | John W. Hill v. James A. Richardson et al | Warren | Non-payment of Bank Note |
Add. defendant: Meridith Hill. J.W. Hill holds two notes from the defendant made out to M. Hill totaling $200. A vendor's lieu was made for a tract of land, as well. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 749 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | J. R. Parker, et al. v. M. B. Keith, et al. | Warren | Breach of Bond |
Additional plaintiffs: J.T. St. John and M. Coulson. Additional defendants: Jason D. Mosby & Andrew T. Mosby (J.D. Mosby & Brother), J.W. Paty, and H.P. Winton. Parker, et al. were sureties of Keith on a bond executed by him for $500 to J.D. Mosby & Brother. Bond was for binding Keith as agent for Mosby & Brother in selling & collecting for them fruit trees and shrubbery. Plaintiffs suing Keith for breach of bond and to pay off his liability to Mosby & Bro. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 773 | 96 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | L. C. Turpin v. Townsend, Townsend & Company | Warren | Breach of Contract | Middle | Range: 21 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 129 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1843 | Martha Alexander v. Nathaniel Perry et al. | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional defendant - James Perry land tracts in the following amounts 50 acres, 15 acres, 25 acres, 15 acres and 34 acres |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 212 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1838 | Nathan Neely, in error v. John H. Wood | Warren | Slaves, Selling of |
John H. Wood claimed that Nathan Neely illegally detained an enslaved boy of 5 years old named Samson, "Sam," worth $700. Wood had purchased Samson from his father (Wood Sr.) along with his mother Mary and 5 siblings: Nelly, Albert, Henry, Emily, and Joe. Neely claimed he had purchased Sam. The court first awarded Wood damages of $800. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 208 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1922 | State v. William Duncan | Warren | Destruction of Property/ Petition to Halt Construction | Middle | Range: 33 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 447 | 32 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1895 | State v. W. D. Hughes | Warren | Liquor, Sale of Illegal |
Hughes was charged with "unlawfully retail spirituous liquors on Sunday" and "keeping open a saloon on Sunday." |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1083 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | State, for the use of Warren County v. F. M. Smith | Warren | Contempt of Court |
The court held two practicing attorneys--William T. Murray & F.M. Smith--in contempt, and fined them $25 each, for fighting in open court. Smith appealed the ruling to the SC, claiming he was only defending himself against Murray's attack on him, and that he was addressing the court when Murray began attacking him with law books and a chain. Smith lost his appeal to the SC. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 740 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1819 | Samuel Lewis v. James Lockhart, admr. of John Strothers, decd. | Warren | Non-Payment of Debt |
John Strothers executed a note binding himself to Samuel Lewis for a debt of $315. Strothers then died, and Lewis sued the estate to recover the debt. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | State v. Black et al. | Warren | Trespass with Force of Arms |
Additional defendants: William Blake, Robert Black, and Henry Pennington. Black also charged with recognizance. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 196 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1827 | State v. Henry Hull | Warren | Slaves, Selling of |
Henry Hull brought slaves from Virginia to Tennessee and began selling them. The state found that he did not have the authority to sale these slaves. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 371 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1838 | Thomas Meadows v. Thomas Hopkins | Warren | Land, Sale of |
The amount of land in question is 30 acres. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 208 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1845 | William P. Lawrence v. Bernard Richardson et al. | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional defendants - Robert Webb, George C. Britt, Benjamin B. Britt and James Joger Amount of land in dispute 422 1/2 acres valued at $3000.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 217 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | William J. Stubblefield v. William P. Humble et al. | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional Defendants: Mary Humble, William Stevens, John Harriet, Ruth Gardner, Ella Gardner, Sarah Gardner, Virginia Gardner, Elvira Gardner, Van Gardner. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 54 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | William Nunnelly v. Alexander Black | Warren | Breach of Contract |
Plaintiff is sued for the use of a creek near his sawmill. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 285 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1829 | Wilchers Heirs v. Wilchers Executors | Warren | Wills, Construction of |
Cause of Action: Non cupative will. Will of Archibald Wilcher. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 370 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1842 | William Winnard v. Dennis C. Robbins | Warren | Trespass with Force of Arms |
Robbins also spelled Robins. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 385 | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | York & Robinson v. Sam T. Byers, et al. | Warren | Land, Sale of |
Additional Defendants: U.S. Knight and wife, Ella, W.H. Byers, Irena Mason and Dan Bain (all residents of Warren County). William York and W.A. Robinson were partners in the firm of York & Robinson, a hardware business at McMinnville. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 118 | 0 | Order A Copy |