Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1938 Blytha Henley v. Southern Railway Company Roane Negligence

Railway sprayed its right of way w/poison & Blytha's mule ate poisoned grass on the right of way and died, so Blytha sued the railway. Blytha leased farm between railway & Walden's Ridge, near Elverton, & was working mule in cane mill during day, leaving it tied up 1/4 mile from railway at night. He drove schoolbus in morning. When he returned, his employee Chester Lee Johnson told him mule had broken rope & eaten poisoned grass. Exhibit: sign warning of poison/passable injury to livestock.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1261 50 Order A Copy
View Entry 1938 City of Crossville v. Joe Walker Roane Damages

Walker sued the City of Crossville for $10,000 damages for negligently causing him to be injured (he was struck by a car) while working (he was moving a pipe into a ditch) for said city on East Alley. Plaintiff charged that city should have blocked off the street and allowed traffic to detour around or at least put up signs warning traffic to slow down. Walker suing defendant for not providing a safe place to work.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1264 71 Order A Copy
View Entry 1938 Sim Wakefield v. State Roane Murder

Shooting. Victim: Sampson Wolfe.

 East Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 113 248 Order A Copy
View Entry 1938 State v. Gus Adams Roane Murder

Incident of 26 March 1937, defendant "unlawfully, willfully, maliciously shoot and kill Henry Eugene Fairchilds with a shot gun." Fairchilds had been the son-in-law of the defendant Adams.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1256 151 Order A Copy