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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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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 |
View Entry | 1944 | Abe R. Carter v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. Inc. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff sued for past overtime pay. Exhibits include pay receipts and envelopes, correspondence, calendar. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 591 | 116 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Anna Croft v. Walter E. Kennedy, Sr. et al | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff seeks to recover money lost by her husband to Defendants in the course of gambling. Add. Defendant: Walter E. Kennedy Jr. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 653 | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | Atlantic Refining Co. v. Standard Accident Insurance Co. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff sued to collect $2,295.81 from defendant, who had entered into bond with Southeastern Paving & Construction Co. to pay all claims for material furnished Southeastern Paving for the construction of a highway in Carter Co. known as State Aid Project No. 6448-A, Carter Co. Southeastern Paving refused to pay plaintiff & has since entered bankruptcy. Defendant denies any liability on grounds that Atlantic did not file its suit within required 60 days. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1113 | 183 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Andrew J. Bowen v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Mr. Bowen initially sued for recovery of two months of insurance payments. Mr. Bowen was injured while working for Knoxville Power and Light Company, but did not receive any insurance payments for his on-job injuries. Housed in 3 folders. |
East | Range: 10 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1473 | 267 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Charles B. Tindell v. Walter E. Kennedy Sr. et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff seeks to recover gambling losses. Exhibits include gambling tickets. Add. Defendants: Walter E. Kennedy, Jr. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 563 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Community Drug Co. v. Liquid Carbonic Corporation | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Exhibits: collection notice, remittance slip, checks, sales statement, correspondence, receipts, court documents, certificate, account sheet, distress warrants. Plaintiffs sued to recover $2000.00 paid to defendant company. This suit was based upon the failure of defendant to comply with the Code of Tennessee in regard to the repossession under a conditional sales contract of a soda fountain combination which had been sold to plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Neighbors. Add. materials located in ET 1526. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 598 | 344 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | Charles Arnold v. Empire Building Inc. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: unpaid wages. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 559 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Cumberland Trust Co. v. General Realties Inc., et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: misappropriation of funds during business dealings. Add. Defendants: G. T. Fielden, Florence L. Fielden, Lois M. Fielden, Zula P. Clark, John T. & Laura S. Shipley, J. R. & Mattie F. Underwood, H. B. & Pearl L. Litz, H. E. & Bratrice M. Grimes, Cas & Violet A McNeil, Frank & Gertrude J. Caldwell, Vernon O. & Ruth Henegar, J. R. Allen, Sallie C. Mitchell, Ruth Crow, Thelma Crow, Harley & Christine Crow, Mildred Crow Cate, W. H. Cate, 19 others. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 565 | 225 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | C. M. Guggenheimer, Inc. v. H. V. Jenkins | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff a corporation based in Lynchburg, VA., sued to recover $624.38 from deft. In Jan. 1928 deft. leased space to operate a beauty parlor in a building pla.. had under construction at that time. Space leased for 3 years at rent of $700 a year. On 21 Dec. 1928 deft. voluntarily broke the terms of the lease by discontinuing the operation of the beauty shop. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1381 | 169 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Power & Light Co. City of Knoxville /-0 | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
City of Knoxville sued to recover $26,931,63, plus interest, from Knoxville Power & Light Co. Plntff. states that $26,931.63 is the cost of "paving between the rails of the car tracks of defendant and a space of eighteen inches on the outer rails of said tracks". City is attempting to have a lien placed on the property of the Railway & Light Co. 7 Folders. Folders 1-5 in ET Box 1406. |
East | Range: 10 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1406 | 645 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Ficks Reed Company v. H. V. Jenkins, Inc. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plntff., a manufacturer & distributor of "soaps, cosmetics, and essential oil" based in Cincinnati, OH, is sued to recover a judgment of $746.50. from the deft. This is the amount deft. owes it in unpaid bills for its products. |
East | Range: 10 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1462 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | Fidelity-Bankers Trust Co. v. George F. McCanless | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: unlawful taxation. Exhibits include tax returns, property assessments, financial statements, balance sheets. Plaintiff acting as trustee of A. F. Sanford trust. |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 507 | 206 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | Graybar Electric Co. Inc. v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: Breach of Contract. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 631 | 1038 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | Graybar Electric Co., Inc. v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: breach of contract. Exhibits only. Transcripts are in ET box 631. Exhibits: correspondence, check registry, invoices, proposal, legal notice/specifications/bonds/proposal. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 652 | 200 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | H. H. Connelly v. Hamilton National Bank | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: overtime pay. |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 509 | 197 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | H. W. Lamb v. Quality Bakery Co., Inc. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: wages. Exhibits include payroll book, Fair Labor Act documents. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 663 | 99 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | Horace Lee Robinson v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
This suit was instituted by plaintiff, sued on behalf of himself and other employees, for the recovery of back wages and liquidated damages. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 624 | 92 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Harold Johnson v. Knox County | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff seeks to recover wages due him by Defendant. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 563 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | Hugh Bosson v. Ed Lavin | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages | East | Range: 7 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 758 | 24 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1940 | In the Matter of Estate of Gladys G. Gann, dec. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: burial expenses. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 653 | 54 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | J. Wesley Brewer v. Knox County | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff is sued to recover salary due him by Defendant. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 539 | 51 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | J. S. Remine v. Knox County, et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff claims he was paid below what was required by statute for his position. Add. Defendant: J. W. Elmore. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 539 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | J. R. Miller v. Paul A. Appleby | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: payments made on repossessed car. Exhibits include release agreement, correspondence, receipt, sales agreement. Defendant d/b/a Southern Finance Co. Related to Paul A. Appleby, Trustee Southern Finance v. Roy C. Norton in box ET 7. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 577 | 103 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | J. H. Webster v. City of Knoxville | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff sued Defendant to recover wages due him according to a city ordinance change. Exhibits include court documents, budget requests, depositions, memos, cancelled checks, envelopes, city charter, photo static copies of correspondences, Knoxville city charter book. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 579 | 298 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1943 | J. P Anderton et al. v. City of Knoxville | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiffs sued Knoxville fire department for wages lost due to unlawful pay and grade reductions. Exhibits include Knoxville City Charter book, copy of legislative act. Add. Plaintiff: B. M. Turbyville. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 595 | 284 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1902 | J. F. Chumbley v. John W. Conner et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Suit instituted by Clerk of Chancery court against former clerk to recover funds owed. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 741 | 419 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | James Park v. James H. Morris | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Appeal from original bill in which judgment was passed for Morris to pay $315 to Park that was reversed for the sum of $152. Original bill included a failure of payment for services by Morris as Park did not believe Morris or his company fulfilled their contractual duties for him. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1135 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1865 | John Roberts v. Samuel C. Swan | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Roberts sued for $5,000, but Swan "absconded or so conceals himself that the ordinary process of the Law cannot be served upon him." |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1203 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | Joe Sherman v. Ralph Kopelove et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Add. Defendant: Kopelove Iron & Metal Co. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 637 | 240 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Knoxville Theaters, Inc. v. L. H. Spillman et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: money spent on repairs by Plaintiff on property leased from deceased. Add. Defendants: Robert S. Leach, Jo. H. Anderson. Defendants are trustees of estate of R. R. Swepson, deceased. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 575 | 242 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | L. E. Simmons et al. v. Woodrow F. Evans et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiffs seeks to have a contract voided and recover money paid to Defendants for land on the grounds that Defendants failed to disclose facts about the home and land to be purchased. Add. Plaintiff: Ophelia Simmons. Add. Defendant: Evelyn Evans. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 579 | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | Martin Southern v. Jessie Marie Miller | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff is sued for taxes collected unlawfully by Defendant, the Knox County Circuit Court clerk. |
East | Range: 6 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 489 | 105 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | N. R. Sellers v. Oscar Brobeck | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages | East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 863 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1946 | O. A. Shaver v. Fidelity-Bankers Trust Co. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff sued Defendant to recover unpaid overtime. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 533 | 260 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | P. R. Donahue v. East Tennessee National Bank et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Pro se Plaintiff disputes collection of stock certificates for lapsed promissory note. Exhibits include receipts, newspaper clipping, envelopes, correspondences, stock certificates, cancelled check. Add. Defendants: M. O. Cowan, Claude Fox, G. B. Reynolds, L. H. Spillman, Federal Reserve Bank, Re-Construction Finance Corp., Hall & Donahue, Inc. |
East | Range: 7 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 491 | 143 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | Pheni Insurance Co. v. Julius Ochs et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Incomplete Case. Appeal document to recover $345 for premiums collected. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1091 | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Quinn-Marshall Co. v. Costello Bros. Co., et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | Sanford F. Johns v. Rev. Clifford D. Inge | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff seeks to recover cost of pistol owned by him and lost by Defendant. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 525 | 33 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | State ex rel. Timothy J. Maney v. City of Knoxville et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Origin of recovery: unpaid wages related to Knox County's Civil Service Act. Add. Defendants: Guy L. Webb, Joe Kimsey, C. M. Johnson. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 587 | 309 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Southern Railway Co. v. White Ash Coal Co.& Tillman Bates | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | State Council Junior Order United American Mechanics v. John Short et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Defendants allegedly transferred money into their own names illegally from funds of Plaintiff. Exhibits include minute book, bylaws books, cancelled checks, correspondences, inventory list. Add. Defendants: J. R. Francis, Ira Long, J. D. Kilgore, W. R. Jones, W. B. Rutherford, John Murray, John T. Nelson, J. E. Harvey, G. P. Tallent, J. I. Bean, W. S. Wise, J. C. Francis, C. F. Roehl, Clay Horner. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 577 | 79 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | U. J. Chambers v. Mrs. R. G. Percefull, et al. | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff sued to recover commission on real estate allegedly due him. Add. Defendants: Hugh S. Basson, Robert M. Perrin. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 535 | 134 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Walter McGill v. H. J. Drinnen | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | William O. Dixon v. G & G Music Company | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Suit was filed seeking a recovery of money under the terms and provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Exhibits: two spiral notebooks from Morristown High School, receipt, check, route list, time sheets. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 538 | 220 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Walter S. Smith v. City of Knoxville | Knox | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Plaintiff alleges that he was demoted in a manner that violated the law. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 567 | 196 | Order A Copy |