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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 | 1838 | Andrew M. Ballentine v. William R. Brown et al. | Giles | Debt |
Additional Defendants: Kircher Brown, Samuel Brown Amount of debt $727.50 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 208 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | Archibald C. White v. Ira E. Brown | Giles | Debt |
Amount of debt $740.20 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 213 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | Alfred C.W. White, admr. of Archibald White, dec. v. Wesley Burge | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 277 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1866 | Andrew M. Wilson v. John Cox& R. W. Pillow | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 280 | 18 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Archibald C. White v. Richard C. Suttle, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendant: C. W. H. Biles. White claimed that since 1840 he had transactions with Biles that led to indebtness and therefore as a result sold a tract of land to White containing about 62 acres. White agreed to give the recovery of the land if Bile paid him back $4600 in separate payments of $2300. White claimed Bile failed to pay either of these payments. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 4 | 134 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | A. J. Troustine, et al. v. F. R. Daley, et al.. | Giles | Debt |
Complainants: Joseph Troustine, Abram Troustine, Henry Hess, Phillip J. Troustine, Sam H. Troustine - all citizens of State of Ohio. Defendants: F. R. Daley of Ala.; F. E. Daley, W. H. McCallum, John S. Wilkes of Giles Co., TN. Decision appealed to Middle Div., Tenn. Supreme Court. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 682 | 164 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Andrew Fay v. Marshall Moody | Giles | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 196 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1844 | Amara Ezell v. Elihu McDonald | Giles | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 214 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Alexander M. Carter & Benjamin F. Carter v. Nathaniel F. Cheairs | Giles | Debt |
Cheairs administrator of William McKissack. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 258 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | A. J. Abernathy v. B. F. Carter | Giles | Debt Settlement |
Additional parties: Cynthia R. Carter, Jno. C. Walker, J. B. Stacy |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 55 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Allen White v. William N. Hackney | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Case also involves a suit for debt and damages, though the reason is unclear. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 261 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1857 | A. S. Young v. B.W. Knight& Stephen Vaughan | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 277 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1858 | Achilles A. Dickerson v. Ananias Oliver | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 279 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1830 | Adam Bell v. William Brown & James Brown | Giles | Debt |
Amount of Debt $245.70. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | Archer Cheatham & Bro. v. William T. Abernathy, et al. | Giles | Debt |
Add. Defendant: James R. Bunch, Lewis Bird. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 486 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | Amos Grigsby v. James C. Saunders, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendants: William H. Black, Eliza Black, James C. Saunders, admr. of Abner E. Pate, dec., James G. Erwin. Origin of debt: note. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 549 | 76 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1887 | A. J. Ballantine v. John L. Yancy | Giles | Debt |
Plea of debt due for damages under $500.00 for removing and appropriating corn upon which Ballantine had a lien. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 720 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1854 | Benjamin Franklin v. George W. Ezell | Giles | Debt |
Amount of debt $300.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 246 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | Benjamin F. Carter v. John C. Johnson, et al. | Giles | Debt |
Defendants name also spelled Johnston. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 264 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Brennon & Co v. Hill & Ballentine | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 53 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1877 | Bazil Wagstaff v. A. Cox, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendants: Caleb Thomas, W. H. Black, David H. Parsons. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 62 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | B. W. Thompson v. Jonathan Ford, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: James Vaughan, F. Barrett, and J. J. Richardson.. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 283 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Benjamin Ingram v. Marshall Moody | Giles | Debt |
Amount of debt $233.00 |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 9 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1884 | B. F. Reed v. Florence Simonton, et al. | Giles | Debt for Rent |
Additional Defendant: Ann Simonton. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 558 | 27 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Bank of Tennessee v. Archibald C. Esselman et al. | Giles | Debt |
Additional defendants, Thomas Kennedy and Alexander Esselman |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 252 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | Benjamin Franklin v. James McNeece, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendants: John C. Walker. Plaintiff claimed that defendants were indebted to him for $300. Complainant was the surety of McNeece upon a note executed to George McGee for $139.92 in Oct. & Dec. 1860 which note was transferred by McGee to E. Ed(?) who brought suit upon and recovered judgment before S. A. Parsons in Jan. 1861 against McNeece. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 16 | 65 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | B. F. Carter, et al. v. P. Melvin et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: A. W. Carter & B. M. Mason. Additional Defendants: R. L. Evans. Plaintiffs formerly made up B. Carter & Co., B. F. Carter had since died. Plaintiffs were trying to recovery a previous judgment from defendants. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 19 | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | Cullen Vick v. George W. Pullen& William N. Hackney | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendant: Wesley Vick. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 285 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1894 | Charles J. Robinson v. R. S. Drew | Giles | Debt |
Plaintiff, Charles Robinson, sued the defendant R. S Drew for payment of debt for horses purchased from the plaintiff by the defendant. Prior to appeal the judge in Giles County awarded the plaintiff $292.50 and court costs. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1067 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | Charles C. Hardy et al.v. Isaiah Ivey | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: Ajax Royster and Benjamin Teppan. Oversize |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 214 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | Charles Haynie v. Basil Wagstaff et al. | Giles | Debt |
Additional defendant - Mary Wagstaff Amount of debt $325.20 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 214 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | Calvin A. Reynolds v. Wells & Young | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Defendants were T. J. Wells & J. C. Young, partners in trade under the style Wells & Young. Plea of debt due by note under $1000. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 17 | 21 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | C. N. Ordway, et. al. v. R. G. P. White | Giles | Debt Dispute |
John C. Gordon, J. P. McGuire, R. H. Dudley, R. Harris |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 51 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Clement H. Eliff v. Willis Griggs et al. | Giles | Debt |
The defendants were Griggs, James D. Goodman, A. R. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 252 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Constantine Perkins admr. of Robb Whitfield, (col), dec. use of Viney Whitfield, col. V. Lawrence Johnson et al. | Giles | Debt |
Additional defendants: Henry Clay Crow, John A. Jackson; Plaintiffs are African American. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 320A | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1866 | D. C. Carter & Co. v. John Atkins | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 280 | 48 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1871 | Dyonitia White, et al. v. William M. Beasley | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: Newton White. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 333 | 54 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Ezra Webb v. Thomas Porter | Giles | Debt Settlement | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 196 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1874 | Elizabeth Kennedy v. M. H. Butler, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendants: Isaac J. Barber and T. B. Harwell |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 62 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | Edward R. Field v. N. C. Buford& W. W. Potter | Giles | Debt Settlement | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 267 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1831 | Elizabeth Angus v. Simpson H. White, John Gordon, Samuel E. Tomlinson | Giles | Debt |
Plea of debt rendered unto Elizabeth Angus of $450.00, "which to her they owe and from her unjustly detain." Damages of $200.00. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 374 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | Edward E. Cox v. W. W. Gordon | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Plaintiff rented land to Ellis McGuire, a black man, who gave a $225 note on Jan. 1873 promising to pay off the note when the 1873 cotton harvest was sold. On the way to the market, Dec. 23, 1873, the 4 bales of harvested cotton were attached by def who who had obtained a judgment against McGuire for the unpaid balance of $71.72 owed on the purchase of a horse during the spring of 1873. Plaintiff relieved the bales claiming delivery of the bales by McGuire. So, McGuire owned no bales for attachment. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 29 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1882 | E. F. Aymett v. John D. Butler, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
. Additional Defendants: N. E.(?) Landcaster and W.H.(?) Landcaster. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 57 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1887 | E. H. F. Gordon v. J. H. Burrows, et al. | Giles | Debt Settlement |
Debt due on judgment, $600.00, re: tract of land lying in 16th Civil Dist., Giles Co., 157.8 acres near Richland Creek, conveyed 1 Jan. 1872. Isaac Compton, N. F. Compton, A. M. V. Compton, Barbara Compton, W. A. Compton, M. F., Compton |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 702 | 70 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | F. R. Kellum v. Dick Dougherty | Giles | Debt Settlement | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 55 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1859 | Fountain Wade v. Milton McClure et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Frederick McClure and Newton McClure. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 277 | 5 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | George T. Gillespie v. William B. Brooks | Giles | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 191 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1879 | G. W. Staley v. M. B. S. Gordon | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 56 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1850 | George W. Tillery v. Archibald C. White | Giles | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 230 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1880 | G. T. Williams v. John T. Steele | Giles | Debt Settlement |
Additional parties: Ed Dickenson |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 55 | 0 | Order A Copy |