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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1860 | Alexander Lowe et al. v. John Thompson | Cheatham | Debt Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: W. J. Gant, R. J. Gant, and J. G. Gant. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 297 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1880 | Dolly Hagewood v. H. B. Graves | Cheatham | Damages | Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 61 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1893 | Dudley Bros. & Lipscomb v. A. J. Pardue et al. | Cheatham | Debt |
Plaintiffs and several other parties placed attachments against Price Felts & Co. in the hands of Constable A. J. Pardue. Pardue then levied said attachments upon a wagon and two ponies. Plaintiffs now complain that they did not receive payment from the sale. Additional defendants: W. B. Williams, J. J. Nicholson, R. E. Justice, and J. B. Pardue, all sureties of A. J. Pardue. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 922 | 43 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1882 | D. W. Knight et al. v. James P. Adkisson et al. | Cheatham | Wills, Contested |
Additional Complainant: A. Nork (?) Additional parties: Margaret R. Knight |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 54 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1916 | Fred Collins v. State | Cheatham | Murder |
Additional parties: Willis Johnson, victim, C. J. Hagewood, Nipper Johnson, |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 99 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1868 | George W. Maxey v. Edward G. Hudgins | Cheatham | Estate Settlement |
Estate settlement of Benjamin L. Hudgins, deceased. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 300A | 43 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1888 | G. A. Farmer v. J. D. Lamborough, et al. | Cheatham | Motion for a New Trial |
A judgment was rendered and petitioner appears as stayers to execution from said judgment. Petitioner claims that he did not authorize the use of his name as stayer to the execution. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 760 | 50 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1876 | Harriet Dozier, admr. v. Jesse D. Dozier, et al. | Cheatham | Wills, Contested |
Dennis Dozier, deceased. Jesse D. Dozier and James A. Dozier, sons of the deceased were contesting the appointment of Harriet Dozier, as administrator of their father's estate. She was the widow of the deceased. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 17a | 24 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1885 | H. J. Batts et al. v. Allen Hunter, admr. | Cheatham | Estate Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: Mary E. Batts, Dora Hunter, and Ida Hunter, all daughters of L. James Hunter (deceased) Batts and wife appealing to revoke administrative bonds to L. James Hunter's estate from Allen Hunter, administrator. Includes record of judgment dismissing the petition. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 793 | 52 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1889 | J. W. Stewart v. W. A. & J. B. Johnson, exe. of Nancy Stewart dec. | Cheatham | Estate Dispute |
2 folders. Nancy L. Stewart dec. was the wife of J. W. Stewart and the sister of the defendants. At her passing, Nancy Stewart owned considerable personal property. According to the plaintiff, the defendants are withholding notes and property formerly belonging to his wife and now due to him as her husband. The defendants are withholding said property by virtue of a will written by Nancy Stewart. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 826 | 443 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1860 | Mastin Ussery v. George Russell | Cheatham | Ejectment |
Case also involves a dispute over a tract of land. Exhibit - Oversize cloth map |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 297 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1917 | Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company v. John T. Akin | Cheatham | Negligence |
John T. Akin served as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Judith Ann Akin. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 115 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1883 | Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis R.R. Co. v. Allen Dunn | Cheatham | Damages |
Train hit Dunn's ox, valued at $75.00 |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 793 | 36 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1858 | P. T. Williams v. B. F. King | Cheatham | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 269 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1874 | State v. John Eatherly | Cheatham | Breach of Bond |
Eatherly was accused of illegally carrying a weapon and plead abatement on the first judgment. One of the jurors was his uncle, and Eatherly's council argued that this made the judgment unlawful. In Cheatham County a mile from Ashland City the defendant allegedly pulled out a pistol and fired it. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 13 | 14 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1870 | State v. J. K. Patterson | Cheatham | Murder |
Victim: H. A. White. Indictment for Murder in the second degree. judgment only. Incomplete case. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 726 | 7 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1879 | State v. George Hannah | Cheatham | Breaking and Entering |
Cause of action: "House Breaking" |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 367 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1886 | S. W. Allen v. L. F. Allen, et al. | Cheatham | Debt |
Additional Defendant: S. M. Allen. Debt due by note. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 582 | 46 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1889 | State v. Jesse Gupton | Cheatham | Murder |
Defendant is accused of stabbing Joe Nicholson to death during a fight at a Christmas party in the home of W. T. Hunter. Plaintiff is claiming self-defense. Also mentioned are Henry Frazier, Thomas Adkins, George Nicholson, and Allen Hunter. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 834 | 179 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1885 | T. M. Dunn v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company | Cheatham | Damages | Middle | Range: 34 Section: b Shelf: Box Number: 582 | 43 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1892 | T. J. Adkisson v. S. D. Power | Cheatham | Tax Collection |
Adkisson is the new receiver of taxes for Cheatham county, and asserted Power did not pay 1888 taxes despite having a receipt for said transaction. Adkisson was named reciever for two previous court cases: A. Page, et al v. M. Tomlin and G. W. Winter v. N. D. Farmer - his task being collecting all papers, notes, and accounts of R. S. Turner. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 915 | 35 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1860 | Thomas Bysor v. R. H. Redding et al. | Cheatham | Debt |
Additional Defendants: Catherine Buchanan. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 293 | 7 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1880 | Virginia Sesler v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company | Cheatham | Damages for Wrongful Death |
M. L. Moore, admr. of Jacob Sesler, dec. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 502 | 61 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | William Whitfield, Sr. v. William Green | Cheatham | False Imprisonment | Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 350 | 90 | Order A Copy |