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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 | 1941 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit only. Domestic Relations Court Receipts. |
East | Range: 5 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 210 | 885 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1927 | (unknown) | Knox | Theft |
Exhibits only. Exhibit to testimony of Ted Gregory. L. Gault stole a rental car in Knoxville. Copy of rental company letter to sheriff seeking a reward. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 98 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1894 | (unknown) | Knox | Land, Sale of |
Motion only. Case Name: Unknown. Court of Origin: Unknown. Land to be sold belongs to M. Roberts. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 99 | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1834 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
A statement of the amount of fines and forfeitures collected by the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals at Knoxville for the year 1834. pages 182 and 183 only. Mentioned is Hugh Brown. Trustees' Receipt for 1834 |
East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 706 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1934 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Book of stock certificates and stubs for Day-Evans Iron Works, Knoxville, 1925-1932. Stamps affixed to several. Case unknown. Preferred shares issued to Bertha R. Spencer (?); Edith I. Kennedy; Lucinda E. Thompson; Hugh W. Day; Mrs. A. B. Day; A. B. Day, Trustee for Edith Day Kennedy or her surviving children incase of her death; A. B. Day, Guardian of Cave (?) Bryant Day; T. (?) Spencer, Guardian of Carroll Neal Kennedy; East Tennessee National Bank. Board covers. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 787 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1922 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
This was a loose stack of receipts from the early 1920s in Knoxville, TN. All receipts appear to be from a J.E. Karnes. There was no case file found. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 788 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Inventory of housing/building supplies from E.C. Camp, attorney and counselor in Knoxville, TN. 1870's. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1091 | 1 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1913 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit only. Southern Railway Company Freight Conductors Train Book. Original case unknown. |
East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1049 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Folder only contains an order remanding the case to the Chancery Court of Knox County to be heard on appeal. Portion of page with case name is torn off. Only name given in document is Helen Hudson. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1068 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit Only. Copy of "Valve World" mailed to Sam. E. Cleague. |
East | Range: 5 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 210 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1887 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit only. Letter from Col. E. C. Reeves concerning George Brown and a receipt. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 99 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | (unknown) | Knox | Petitions for Certiorari |
Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 101 | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1882 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit only. Receipt from sale of goods. S. P. Evans, receiver. Goods bought from Jim Anderson, The Lightning Grocer. See ET 1068 for additional receipts for S. P. Evans. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 99 | 33 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibit only. Oversize newspaper announcement for the "Object of the Tennessee Life and Nuptial Union." Posted by John A. Payne, secretary of the organization. Original case unknown. |
East | Range: 8 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 10 | 1 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1953 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibits only. Copies of numerous letters from architects concerning the State office Building and Supreme Court Building in Knoxville. Includes a inventory of items installed (i.e.. Granite, windows, etc.) Letters from Baumann & Baumann Architects of Knoxville, Construction Materials Laboratory of Knoxville, and Johnson & Willard of Knoxville. Letters dating 1952-1953. |
East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1051 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1929 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Exhibits only. Three checks, one for $3.38, payable to the Knoxville Power & Light Co., one for $10.00 to Dr. L. C. Reid, and one to Joan and Joe Horne for $27.53, signed by S. E. Cleage, Supreme Court Clerk. |
East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1054 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Reply to Third Assignment. Alderman Cleage, who represented the 6th Ward of the City of Knoxville, is mentioned. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 788 | 10 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1912 | (unknown) | Knox | Unknown |
Two exhibits in unidentified case. Exhibit "B" is a booklet of by-laws and rules for the Marble City Lodge No. 47, Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America, 1912. "C" is a booklet of the constitution of the BRCA national organization, 1890. Both filed on May 18, 1912 in the office of S. E. Cleage, Supreme Court Clerk. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1091 | 50 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Andrew Knott v. John Baxter | Knox | Damages |
Baxter sued Sam Miner and Andrew Knott for a debt of $500. Miner signed a promissory note at the previous trial but still has not paid. Baxter appeals and then sued for damages of $1000. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 3 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | Addie Harrell v. Fidelity Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Incomplete case file: testimony only. Because only testimony is present, case details are difficult to discern. It seems that Mrs. Addie Prince Harrell had trouble with her eyes, perhaps an astigmatism. She seems to have gotten into an accident, but was not badly harmed. She was diagnosed as neurasthenic. What she claimed to the insurance company is not stated here. Much questioning about glasses and nervous disorder. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 13a | 328 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1934 | Ausie Pilkington v. Prudential Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Rhonda Pilkington worked for the American Cigar Box Lumber Company, but was supposedly fired when she had to go to Jonesboro for a few days. Incomplete case file; assignment of errors only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 17 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | A. W. Kutsche & Co. v. William L. Anderson | Knox | Compensation |
Anderson was hired as a laborer during the construction of the post office & court house in Knoxville. He was paid at a rate of 22.5 cents an hour, but said he was doing iron rod work, a job that was paid a higher rate. Anderson sued to be paid the difference of the pay rate. Add'l documents in box ET 849. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 17 | 128 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | Albert Chavannes v. Knoxville Water Co. | Knox | Injunction |
Case concerning Coca Cola and the charges for water used in its manufacture. Plaintiff owned several properties on a large lot, a brick building leased by E. Bancroft, upon whose behalf the Chavannes filed this cause. The construction of a new house on the property raised waterprices. Chavannes was a Swiss author of books including East Tennessee Sketches. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 17a | 169 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | Ahler Plumbing Company v. Bishop-Babcock-Becker Company | Knox | Failure to Pay |
J. B. Jones, a member of the building committee of the Holston National Bank, hired Ahler Plumbing to install a heating system in his house. Ahler bid on a project at the bank, & did the installation work at Jones' house so that he might recommend the bank hire Ahler. The pump was supplied at a much higher rate and Ahler sued to be relieved of the debt because it was not the price he had agreed to. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 19a | 27 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | Addie Harrell, et al. v. Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Incomplete case file; pages 318 - 670, and testimony. Addie Prince Harrell was employed by a dentist creating crowns and bridge work on an emory wheel. Harrell had trouble with her eyes, perhaps an astigmatism. She was in an accident, then diagnosed neurasthenic. She made a claim to her insurance company that was challenged in court. Case related to ET Box 13a, & ET 98. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 21a | 681 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1900 | A. M. Hornsby v. City National Bank et al. | Knox | Deed of Trust |
Cover page only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 6 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | A. G. Mason, admr. of A. G. Graham et al., dec. v. B. L. Burson, et al. | Knox | Wills, Contested |
Caption and first page are mostly missing, so additional parties are difficult to determine. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 29 | 240 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1910 | A. C. Grimm v. State | Knox | Other |
Case involves a petition for certiorari. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1986 | Adrian Terry, assignee v. H. Schubert | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiff was the assignee of J. B. Davis and C. Baumgartner. Baumgartner & Davis were contractors and builders hired to build a hotel for the defendant at 85 & 87 Gay St. (west side) in Knoxville. Plaintiffs sued for $913.13 for unpaid work- labor and materials. |
East | Range: 19 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1876 | 130 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | Andrew Sharp v. Peter Knott admr. of James Linus et al. | Knox | Unknown |
Additional Defendants: Charles Morrow. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 49 | 53 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | A. S. Hudiburg v. George Yost, et al. | Knox | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: John Devers and L. M. Wester. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 65 | 267 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1928 | A. A. Newson& W. F. Newson v. Joseph Edward McKissick | Knox | Unknown |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 80 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1909 | Archie Clark v. State | Knox | Liquor Violation |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge that he sold liquor illegally. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 76 | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1909 | Arthur Wright v. State | Knox | Liquor Violation |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge that he sold liquor without a license. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 76 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Alexander Householder v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge of voluntary manslaughter. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 76 | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | A. T. Baker v. Knoxville Woolen Mills | Knox | Unknown |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 87 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Ann Eliza Yoe v. R. H. Sansom, admr. | Knox | Debt Dispute |
Case is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 88 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1887 | Alex Smith, in error v. State | Knox | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
Alexander Smith was charged with carrying an illegal and concealed weapon-a pistol-in the woods in the 22nd District of Knox County. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1857 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | Anges Cutin v. Dennis Curtin | Knox | Unknown |
Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 101 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | A. O. Odell v. William Gibbs | Knox | Fraudulent Conveyance |
Plaintiff refered to as William A. O. Odell. Case involves alleged fraud in the sale of a sorrel mare that Gibbs represented to be a good work mare, a representation Odell claims to be false. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 101 | 129 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Archie Monroe, in error v. State | Knox | Disturbing the Peace |
Monroe was charged with "disturbing an educational essembly" at Austin School House by fighting and quarreling and talking and making boisterous language and making threatening demonstrations. Witnesses claimed Monroe had threatened a teacher after his daughter, a student at the school, had been suspended. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 102 | 21 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Abe Waterson v. State | Knox | Liquor Violation |
"Violating the Bone Dry Law." |
East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 167 | 161 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | Alice Julian v. Isaiah Julian | Knox | Divorce |
In this divorce case, Alice Julian claimed the dfnt. was cruel, abusive, did not work, did not provide for her, and was committing adultery. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1844 | 17 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1887 | A. R. Gammon, admr. of John R. Courier, dec. v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Company | Knox | Damages |
The plntff., admr. of John R. Courier, sued the deft. for $10,000 damages in his death. Courier was struck & killed by a train owned & operated by the deft. on the date of 3 July 1886. Courier left a mother & sister. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1845 | 82 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | Adrian McBee & George Logan v. State | Knox | Robbery | East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 230 | 56 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1940 | Amos Oglesby & E. J. Hankins v. State | Knox | Liquor Violation | East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 232 | 106 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1939 | Ab Case & Jean Rogers v. State ex rel J. Fred Bibb | Knox | Liquor Violation | East | Range: 6 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 274 | 103 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1949 | Alice Cora Mayes & William L. Mayes v. Walter Clark | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Receipt included. |
East | Range: 6 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 282 | 224 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | A. N. Lovelace v. C. A. Warters and wife M. J. Warters | Knox | Habeas Corpus |
The petitioner claimed that the defendants wrongfully detained from Lovelace his minor child. The petitioner asked the court to grant writ of habeas corpus that the said child may be released from the custody of said Warters. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1833 | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | Arthur Atkin v. City of Knoxville | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: wrongful demotion. Exhibits include court documents, correspondences, |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 509 | 393 | Order A Copy |