The defendant in error, Deitch, brought suit against the plaintiff in error for debt due under $50.

Sued for $1000 in damages. Claim was the county had used a 552 1/2 foot long and 10 feet wide strip of land on the Rutledge Road without compensating him for it. Due to poor handwriting the first name of the plaintiff is unable to be determined.

Bill filed to recover 2/9 of divided interest in a tract of land; deed under sale was made but are seeking rent accounts for other land tenants; Lucy Scruggs, the life tenant, died after the execution by the Sheriff; arguing the sale was not valid to begin with.

The defendant in error, Trent Canning Co., sued the plaintiff in error for debt due under $500. The plaintiff in error was ordered to pay $74. 55 to the Trent Canning Co. but appealed.

Ca. 10 June 1889 plntffs. purchased a lot in West Knoxville situated between 2 ungraded roads that had never been laid out as streets. Later they had the lot surveyed by the Co. Surveyor & erected a fence to avoid encroaching upon the adjacent roads. Def. ordered the fence torn down, alleging that it was encroaching upon its streets & that the entire lot was part of the street. Plntffs. asked court to enjoin the city from trespassing upon or interfering with the lot. See ET 1066. Maps in M-17-19.

Case incomplete; opinion only.

Additional name: John F. Horne. Defendants ran W. A. Horn and Company, wholesale drug traders, plaintiff worked at Swift's Pharmacy (corner of Cumberland and Crozier). She claimed to have been duped out of thousands of dollars and land in Palestine, TX.

Case file is incomplete; orders and opinion only.

State argued that Hannum killed H. O. Wilson in his home in Blount Co. on May 21, 1890 using a pistol. The State's theory was that Hannum's love interest Nan West, with whom he had a child and lived with for 4 to 5 years, was found with H. O. Wilson. Hannum repeatedly threatened Wilson's life and then committed murder. Exhibit: map of Maryville, TN and J. T. Hanna Anchor Woolen Mill and 1890 almanac. See ET 1799 for additional part of case.

John Coker, alias Floyd, was charged with disorderly conduct/aiding and abetting by his presence and dancing with a prostitute at the house of Mary Oakes on Mabry Street and causing a general disturbance to the neighbors.

Complainants were merchants principal office located in City of Boston, MA, with contracts of insurance against loss by fire throughout the U.S., particularly in State of TN. Contract dispute with several insurance companies relative to policies issued in Knoxville and Tennessee.

Damages for the "misrepresentation of mare very old, lame, & diseased."

Upon the court finding Doomis guilty, he requested a new trial. Doomis testified that the pistol was No. 32 and old/rusty. Ida McMillan, a witness for the state, claimed to have seen Doomis with the gun--loaded. Several people testified that McMillian's reputation was very bad, was single and had been to the work house. Doomis claimed "she fell out with him" and prosecuted him for carrying a gun out of revenge.

Record book only.

Plaintiff Insurance Companies: Knoxville Fire Insurance Co., East Tennessee Insurance Co., Island Home Insurance Co., Planters Fire & Marine Insurance Co., and too many other companies to list. The suit was brought on behalf of the Lenoir Manufacturing Company by the plaintiff insurance companies to recover amounts paid by them for the loss of personal property charged to have been burned by sparks from the defendant's engine as the result of the defendant's negligence.

"This was a contest over the will of Daniel Crowley, dec'd. between a disinherited child and the other children. Verdict and judgement were in favor of the latter, and the disinherited child appealed in error…" D. Crowley died 1890.

Plaintiff Rivernac sued the defendant company for $5000 in damages for injuries sustained to his arm when he was riding on one of the defendants street cars and it crashed into another car. He claimed permanent injury and loss of time and money due to the negligence of the defendant company in the operation of their business.

Co-defendant: Charles Fulton. "on the 5th day of November 1890, in the county of Knox and State aforesaid, unlawfully, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, feloniously, and of their malice aforethought an assault did make upon the body of Henry Robinson with certain deadly weapons, to wit - pistols, knives, and rocks…" "the said Henry Robinson certain mortal wounds from the affect of which he the said Henry Robinson in a few days thereafter died."
Appealed.

For stealing a pair of shoes ($2) & a pair of socks ($0.25) from E. J. Harrison.

Other plaintiffs: George Bicknell (husband of Sarah). Bicknell filed suit for damages in death of Williams dec 1875 (who worked for railroad) in circuit court in Monroe County. That case went to the Supreme Court & she was awarded $6,000 damages & costs. Between the time the case was initially filed & the time of the SC judgement, the railroad was sold. Includes suit was to compel payment of the judgement against railroad.

According to the case file the Defendant did unlawfully "leave and fail to pay his board bill." Case incomplete; brief and summons only.

The state brought this case for William Warren who has been legally convicted of manslaughter in the western division of the state. Warren denied that his confinement in this penitentiary is legal. He claimed that he was leased out by the defendant to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company for work and that his detention and removal was illegal. Note 2 folders.

Plaintiff sued for $10,000 in damages due to negligence. George Wright, his wife, Virginia and child were involved in a collision between their wagon and a steam locomotive at a public crossing in Loudon County. Plaintiff's claim a pile of cross timbers… and other debris prevented them from seeing the train. Defendants argued that they were not guilty due to the Plaintiff's own negligence. Exhibit is blueprint of the railway and public road.

Other defendants: M. F. Caldwell; Barney Irwin. Feasters hired Mynatt & Caldwell (attorneys) for $250 to defend Frank Holly, who was charged with murder in Williamsburgh, Ky. Feasters paid $57 in cash & thought they signed a mortgage on their lot on Franz St. in Knoxville to Mynatt & Caldwell for the remaining $193. Feasters were illiterate & what they signed was a warranty deed for the full $250. Mynatt & Caldwell then proceeded to sell the lot to Irwin.