Damages for personal injuries

This is a suit by Bessie Smith against A.H. Whisman for damages alleged to have been done to her car. She sues for an amount under $500.

The defendant sued for damages as a result of an accident involving a truck of the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company while the defendant was riding his motorcycle. Photographs of accident site.

Consolidated cases. Add. Def: Ernest R. Roberts, Mayme B. Roberts, and the Cherokee Motor Co. The automobile Financing Co. alleges that Roberts Auto Service as principal and Ernest and Mayme Roberts and the Cherokee Motor Co. as endorsers, are indebted to them in the sum of $5,553 secured by eight vehicles. Roberts Auto Service is a taxi co. operating in the City of Knoxville. Mayme and Ernest were in negotiations to purchase a building to lease to Carl R. Roberts Undertaking Co. at the time of the suit.

REA wanted to collect $741.13 due on a check executed by the Brookside Mills and drawn on the mills' account at the East Tennessee National Bank of Knoxville. Local REA agent John I. Dale had no authority to endorse a check made to his company, so he sent it to the main office in Atlanta where it was deposited. However, the check was not paid by the ETNB because it had suspended operations. Sole question being argued was whether plaintiff presented check for payment with reasonable time.

Additional Defendant: Ray Bennington, son of W. G. Bennington. Originally Bennington sued Knoxville & Harley Lee Hill for $10,000 damages. On 6 Aug. 1929 their son's small dog became ill & was put down by Hill, a Humane Officer who did not remove the body for days despite repeated requests to do so. The son found the body & picked it up, becoming ill from exposure to the "poison fluids" and "putrefying flesh". His health is now permanently impaired due to the city's & Hill's negligence.

Origin of debt: promissory notes.

Plaintiff was the widow of Basil T. Widby, dec. who was killed in an accident with a Mack truck driven, owned, and/or contracted by defendant companies and individuals. Additional Defendants: H.M. Green, J.J. Johnson, Arthur Alexander-doing business as Ideal Coal Company, C.O.D. Coal Company, John Riddle, The White Company. Exhibits: IRS documents, correspondence See also ET1556

Additional def..: J. G. Spiers, partners in Spiers Motor Co. Chandler & Co. comprised of S. V. Chandler, H. N. & C. L. Carmichael & W. R. Cooper. Plaintiffs sued to recover $8356.43 in unpaid rent plus interest. Defendants leased a building to be built by plaintiffs. Construction delayed because Chevrolet Motor Co. slow to approve plans. Defendants argue that plaintiffs are asking for payments to which they are not entitled as the lease had expired. Opinion included. Decision of lower court affirmed.

Additional plaintiffs: Harley Hill. Additional defendant: Ray Bennington, by next of friend.

Dr. Nelson is a chiropractor. He treated John Sharp. Sharp accuses Nelson of permanently damaging his neck and causing him to lose is employment as a paper carrier In 3 folders. Xrays located in ET Oversize Box 14.

Blanc a resident of St. Petersburg, FL. On 2 March 1929 TN & FL Land & Investment Co. & Blanc delivered to the plaintiff their promissory note for $2000, payable to Keller plus interest 1 year after date. Keller sued to collect these monies Correspondence included.

Victim: Lyndon Smith

Additional plaintiff: Lucille Wood.

Plaintiff, admx. of Hugh Buckner, charges Southern Railway with negligence in his death & is sued for $50,000 damages. On 2 May 1933 Buckner, an employee of the railway, was riding the company's locomotive back home from his work at the John Sevier Yards when the locomotive in which he was riding collided with a switch engine. Buckner died on 5 May 1933 of injuries sustained in the crash. Plaintiff accuses deft. of operating the locomotive negligently, thereby causing the accident.

The plaintiff rented farm property from R.A. Calloway under a share crop agreement which Calloway violated. The property was later sold to the defendant.

The bill was filed for the purpose of recovering from the defendant a certain piece of real estate. Exhibits: last will and testament of John S. Morgan; deed R. A. Brown, C. & M., to J. S. Morgan; correspondence; checks; tax assessment receipts.

Cause of action in this case was listed as "writ of unlawful detainer"J.A. Morgan lived on land owned by a John S. Morgan. Upon John Morgan's death, James . Johnson, the executor of his will, states that J.A. Morgan refused to leave the land or pay rent

O'Connor is trustee in the bankruptcy of F. E. Fisher & Company. Debt of $1372.36.

Recovery of a 1933 LaSalle automobile.