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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1893 | Alston Boyd v. Eulia C. Robinson | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Dispute of the estate of Jonathan B. Robinson, senior, deceased. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 533 | 197 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Asa Selby, et al. v. John Loague, et al. | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Other complainants: Harriet Lanning, Charlotte Chambers, Joseph Chambers. Other defendants: Eliner C. Ferguson, Ann J. Ferguson, A. G. Barber and wife Sarah Barber, R. S. Jacoby and wife Cassie Jacoby, Isaac A. Ferguson, Eliza R. Ferguson, and several members of the Dent family. No docket number visible. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 380 | 95 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Barney Burns, guardian of Mattie Eddins v. J. E. Allen, et al | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Estate of John T. Eddins. Additional defendants: Suzy T. Allen, Mrs. Mattie Loller |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 548 | 93 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | B. A. Hollenberg, et al. & G. B. Thornton, et al. v. A. J. Kerr, et al. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Other defendants: W. G. Weatherford and C. C. Graham, T. F. & M. E. Graham Part of the case involves furniture at the Clarendon Hotel. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 382 | 39 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Charles F. King, et ux. v. East End Railway Co., et al. | Shelby | Deed Dispute |
Plaintiffs alleged that an 1891 quit claim deed was obtained by fraud. The rail company disputed this, averring that the children of the Kings took advantage of their elderly parents to incite and stir up the lawsuit. Title page & bottoms of text pages are torn & crumbling. |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 591 | 8 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | D. D. Thomas v. Memphis Abstract Company et al | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Additional Defendants: The Security Savings Bank and R. Dudley Frayser |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 531 | 346 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Edmond Orgill v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 388 | 70 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1893 | Everett Nardin v. H. S. Morgan | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Charged with "taking up and keeping a horse" claimed by the plaintiff. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 391 | 23 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Harry Wilbourne & Wife Lucilla v. Eliza May Wilbourne, et al | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendants: Henry Wilbourne, Joseph Wilbourne, Nina Wilbourne, Rebecca Wilbourne, Novie Wilbourne, W. J. Booker, Katie M. Booker |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 374 | 37 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Jackson & Foster v. Chickasaw Cooperage Company | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Folder includes legal briefs relating to the appeal. Plaintiff is demanding payment for materials left at the riverside; defendants refuse to pay, saying they were not notified of the materials' whereabouts, and that many of them had been damaged or washed away by the time they came to pick them up. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 384 | 108 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | James L. Goodloe, exe. of R. L. Brinkley v. Hugh L. Brinkley | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Cause of action: Estate dispute concerning funds that were collected via the United States Government's Civil War era direct tax from Hugh L. Brinkley, acting as an agent for his father, R. L. Brinkley, and refunded to those who paid the direct tax. R. L. Brinkley at the time was not allowed in Memphis or the State of Tennessee due to being considered an alien and hostile to the United States Government. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 548 | 47 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | J. W. Tighe & Wife, M. H. Tighe v. William Williams & J. P. Jordan | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Plaintiffs charged that they were placed on a business association's blacklist as a result of a debt to the defendants. Williams & Jordan initiated the blacklisting, saying that the Tighe Sand Company was unworthy of credit. |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 591 | 41 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | J. S. McTighe & Co., et al. v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Contract for clearing and excavation on line from Bolivar branch near Lamont, Tenn. to a point near Beulah, Mississippi. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 393 | 471 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Kansas City & Memphis Railway & Bridge Company v. Susan Mclean Greer et al./ Jno. C. McLemore et al.v. E. H. Shipley et al | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Additional defendants Valda and Mary McLemore represented by guardian George Randolph Phillip Alston's deed 1st case. John Overton, Robert G. Thompson, Thos. Love and Robt. Love, Charles Durivage's deeds involved in 2nd case. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 497 | 292 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Kate Straight v. Henry Richman | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Case is a complication of a divorce between complainant & H. B. Straight. Richman was an attorney in the divorce, and claimed the Kate's property as his fee. The biggest dispute is over the money Kate spent on the care of the Straight's horse, which Richman wanted to take to satisfy his fee. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 547 | 34 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Lucinda Motley, et al. v. J. W. Vernon | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: Iron Mountain Railroad Company; Joshua E. Motley; Geneva Heunt; Florence A. Motley; Lizzie S. Motley. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 386 | 302 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, et al. v. Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad Company, et al. | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Additional plaintiff: The Taxing District of Shelby County. Additional defendants: Louisville New Orleans and Texas Rail Road Co., Chesapeake Ohio and South Western Rail Road Co., New port News and Mississippi Valley Rail Road Co., Edmund T. H. Gibson, Alexander G. Hackstaff, Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans Rail Road Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Illinois Central Co. Cause of action is a property rights dispute. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 548 | 480 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Mary H. Saint by her friend Walter M. Saint v. C. W. Frazer et. al. | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Concerns property that was located on Main Street in Memphis. Additional defendants listed as L. S. Frazer, George H. Nettleton, The Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Rail Road, AS. J. Holton, and John C. Saint. Property in question was being used as a depot for the rail road company. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 527 | 597 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Marie Rosenfield et al. v. Endowment Rank of Knights of Pythias | Shelby | Insurance Disputes |
Plaintiff sues for $4000 in damages. Charges defendant with refusing to honor a benefit certificate that her husband, Maurice, obtained from them that would pay her $3000 upon his death. Maurice Rosenfield dec. Aug. 1888. Defendant maintains Rosenfield did not inform them that he had consumption, thereby violating contract. Daniel Rosenfield brother of Maurice, came to America Nov. 1887. Rosenfields from Strasburg, Germany. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 535 | 139 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Mrs. Mary Mildred Johnson & Lillie Wyckoff Johnson v. Edwin L. Johnson et al. | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Plaintiffs are executrices and trustees of John Cumming Johnson, deceased. Additional defendants: Carrie L. Clark, J. Scott Clark, Ida Johnson Shotwell, J. L. Shotwelll, Anna C. Johnson, William C. Johnson, Cyrus Fisher Johnson, Alietta Johnson, Daisy Johnson, Ernest C. Johnson, Mary Alietta Johnson, Grace Johnson, and Mrs. Bettie Poston Johnson. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 539 | 62 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Mrs. C. J. Burr v. W. L. Parker, et al. | Shelby | Deed Dispute |
Additional defendants: W.L. Parker, Ella Parker, Robert A. Parker, W.L. Clapp, B.F. Price, DeSoto Building & Loan Association. Note of $4,500 head by Mrs. C.J. Burr, Memphis. Trust deed held by Parker, lot on Lauderdale St. & Nance St., Memphis. |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 592 | 184 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Mrs. J. H. Eldahl by next friend, John J. Cherry v. Eldahl Trustee Company | Shelby | Property Dispute | West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 586 | 92 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1893 | Richard J. Person, admr. v. Elizabeth H. Brown & Janet M. Wilson | Shelby | Estate Dispute | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 380 | 11 | Order A Copy |