Order Cases Online
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 | 1870 | Daniel Hammock v. Edward Clark | Grainger | Trespass with Force of Arms |
Hammock was a soldier in the United States Army and is accused of taking various goods from the home of Clark. Hammock claims that when he confiscated Clark's property, he was operating under the orders of his commanding officers. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1238 | 88 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | D. F. Rogers & wife v. M. M. Kincaid & Robert Dossett | Grainger | Unknown |
Incomplete file: cover page & index only. Index indicates full transcript had 125+ pages. Surnames of deposition witnesses listed in index: Castle, Rogers, Monday, Alexander, Huffaker, Caywood, Maupin, Dossett, Kincaid, Gratiz, Inoyer, Lynch, Evans. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1240 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Joseph Williams v. Thomas Godfrey | Grainger | Trespass |
Joseph Williams was accused of trespass for unlawfully having Thomas Godfrey put in jail. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1066 | 126 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Robert L. Turley v. State | Grainger | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Opinion document. Turley charged with felonious assault upon George A. Greenlee using a pistol with intent to murder. Jury found Turley guilty and fined him $50 and sentenced him to 3 months in jail. |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 814 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | State v. Samuel Johnson | Grainger | Robbery |
Other defendants listed: Tilghman Johnson and William Waters. Defendants charged with assaulting John Evans and taking a steel trap worth $5, property of Jacob Butler. Jury found Johnson not guilty of robbery but guilty of petit larceny and was sentenced to 3 months in county jail. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1239 | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William Bond v. John Brooks et al. | Grainger | Breach of Contract |
Case by same name in ET 99, but has a different county. Add. defendant: S. A. Brooks. In 1865, the plaintiff purchased from L. N. Homer a tract of land for which he was executed a bond. The property is very valuable for the water power and sought to build a grist mill and brought in the defendant to help fund it as security and advancing him $2,000. The plaintiff executed to him a deed of trust, but the defendant has failed to keep up his end of the negotiated contract. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1235 | 152 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William Boond v. Richard Hayworth& Son | Grainger | Debt |
Plaintiff in error was sued by Hayworth and Son for debt due on a note given for the purchase of produce. The original case included A. S. Sellars as a co-defendant. There is a question in this case as to whether or not Sellars can legally be regarded as a business partner to Boond and if Sellars had the legal right to sign their partnership name to a note. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1240 | 53 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William Smith v. Henry Allsup | Grainger | Debt |
Allsup purchased a note originally executed by Smith and payable to J. Coffey. Allsup asked Smith to secure the note. Smith did so by placing into Allsup's hands several other notes as security. Smith now claims that his original note to Coffey is paid but Allsup has since refused to give back the notes held in security. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1238 | 66 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William M. M. Lean v. John Brooks | Grainger | Debt |
Brooks left home for the Army is 1862. Before leaving he loaned Lean, the plaintiff in error, $1,000 in Confederate money for the purchase of a mill. Brooks claims Lean has never repaid the loan. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1240 | 28 | Order A Copy |