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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1897 | A. C. Flanigan & J. W. Flanigan v. Oliver-Finnie Grocery Co. | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
The case began as Debt due on Account; the issue concerns whether a wife's separate estate can be billed for a debt. Folder includes two legal briefs. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 524 | 29 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | A. A. Paton & Company v. F. R. Carter | Shelby | Rent Dispute |
Rent related to the purchase and storage of cotton crop. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 661 | 39 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Bowdre Brothers & Co. v. C. H. Harrison | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Property in dispute is one mule at a value of $50.00 |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 528 | 38 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | B. Lowenstein & Bros. v. R. D. Jordan, et al. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
B. Lowenstein & Bros. comprised of Bernard, Elias, & Abram L. Lowenstien & Isaac D. Marks. Additional Defendants: Heber Jones; W. L. & Effie D. Tucker; F. P., Mrs. F. L., William King, Anna Rives & David Hamill Poston; Earnest L. Cleaves. Poston defendants heirs of David H. Poston, dec.; Mrs. F. L. Poston his widow. Another child, Mary Louise Poston, dec. Plaintiffs suing to collect $287 & $114.11 from Poston estate for goods purchased from them. |
West | Range: H Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 657 | 64 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Linda Y. Spratley | Shelby | Insurance Disputes |
Folder includes several legal briefs and other documents. The cover of the case is missing. Includes two blank insurance documents. |
West | Range: 83 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 454 | 80 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | C. Johnson, et al. v. The Southern B & L Association | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Other plaintiff: Mrs. M. W. Johnston, wife. "Johnson" also spelled "Johnston." Though the case style does not specify "et al.", F. H. Heiskell was also a defendant. B & L= Building and Loan |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 518 | 68 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Charles N. Grosvenor v. New York Life Insurance Co. | Shelby | Insurance Disputes |
The dispute revolved around the question of whether plaintiff executed one or two notes on his premiums. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 514 | 37 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | City of Memphis v. Memphis Savings Bank | Shelby | Bond Dispute |
Memphis Savings Bank questions whether the City of Memphis has the right to call a "series" of its bonds. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 511 | 45 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Eugene Dupont, et al. v. J. T. Jefferson, et al. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: Francis Dupont; Harry A. Dupont; Alexis I. Dupont; Alfred I Dupont; Charles I. Dupont. Other defendants: J. C. Neely. For $1525. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 515 | 11 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | George W. Rutland et al. v. William J. Rutland et al | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: George W. Rutland Junior, Eliza B. Rutland, Ada M. Rutland and Flossy M. Rutland Additional Defendant: Ada C. Rutland |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 711 | 146 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | H. D. Dutlinger, et al. v. F. L. Warner, et al. | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Additional plaintiff: Emma B. Dutlinger. Additional defendants: Samuel Schaer, Sarah Rawwlings, R. J. Rawlings, T. B. Edgington, C. V. Edgington, John Loague, James Reilly, Frank McLaughlin, M. F. Greene, George S. Greene, Emile Keith, Louis Keith. Additional defendants continued: Louis Keith, Junior. The estates of John Wendland, senior deceased and Frank and john Wendland, Junior, deceased (before reaching majority). |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 459 | 628 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | James D. Oldham, et al.v. J. R. York, et al. | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs and defendants not listed. Land in dispute is claimed to have been purchased from Nancy F. Donehouer, one of the heirs of W. S. Garner. |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 475 | 40 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Jacob Fink, et al.v. Memphis Appeal Company | Shelby | Rent Dispute |
Rent of the Appeal Building occupied by the Appeal Avalanche Newspaper. Brief only, additional plaintiffs not listed. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 475 | 42 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | J. B. Peebles v. J. B. Harris & wife | Shelby | Land, Contract Dispute |
First several pages of case are missing. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 503 | 231 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | James C. Rembert, et al. v. John P. Edmondson, et al. | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: Sallie & Rembert Trezevant of Oak Ridge, LA; Sarah R. L. Tally & husband, Foster D. Additional Defendant: Mary W.(?) Edmondson, wife John P. Edmondson. Plaintiffs heirs of their grandmother, Mrs. Sarah R. Rembert, dec.; sued to recover possession of land in Memphis that belonged to her. Property currently in possession of the Edmondson's. James C. Rembert resident of Helena, AR. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 657 | 136 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Kavanaugh Sand Co. v. E. H. McKinley et al.. | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Additional defendants: H. S. McKinley, A. Montgomery, and Thomas Singleton. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 528 | 20 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Lee Thornton, admr. Of Edmond Coleman dec. v. Matilda Coleman, et al. | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Additional defendants: Charles Coleman, W. M. McDowell, Henry Houck. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 665 | 64 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Mary A. Quinn v. The Supreme Council, Catholic Knights of America et al | Shelby | Insurance Disputes |
Additional Defendants: M. E. Carter & Branch 28, Catholic Knights of America, based in Memphis. Plaintiff executrix for husband, Patrick Quinn, died testate 22 Oct. 1890. Widow charges that she was the beneficiary of her husband's benefit certificate, issued by the Catholic Knights, but that Carter has been made beneficiary instead. Certificate worth $2000. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 522 | 218 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Mark D. Stevenson v. George Read, Jr., Trustee | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Other defendant: F.H. White. Real estate: lots #28, #29, of Sedgewick & Nesbit's LaRose St. subdivide., re: $1,100.30, $70.30. Dispute over warranty deed and balance of purchase monies ($180.00). |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 515 | 50 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Mary Bass v. James Bass& Maggie Royster | Shelby | Property Dispute | West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 513 | 93 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1897 | Mrs. W. E. Hughes v. Mrs. Julia C. Gilchrist & M. M. Gilchrist | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Cancelation of a land deed to a house and lot in the suburbs of Memphis, made 12 October 1895 by Mrs. Hughes to Mrs. Gilchrist, due to misrepresentations. Objections filed to transactions, commissions, taxes: re: relation of fiduciary. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 515 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Nannie Patterson Harris v. George W. Harris | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
P. M. Patterson, deceased, of Patterson Transfer Company in Memphis. Plaintiff was his daughter. Also see WT 546 for additional part of case. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 545 | 1013 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Paragon Refining Co. v. Lee Bros. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Lee Bros. firm comprised of Bayliss G. Lee & Robert E. Lee. Plaintiffs sued to collect 763.90 with interest, payment for oil that they furnished the defendants. Paragon Refining Co. based in Toledo, OH. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 657 | 74 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | State, ex rel. v. C. E. Smith, et al. | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
In his will, a W. H. Bolton directed that $10,000 (the "residuum") be used for building a college in Shelby Co. for the education of poor white children. Other defendant is D. C. Slaughter, who succeeded Smith as trustee of the will. The argument is who should have full control over disbursement of funds, complicated by the sale of certain lots of land. "Ex rel." included A. T. Chambers & citizens of the 1st district. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 534 | 21 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Thomas M. Ward v. Harry Lanham, et al. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendant: Florence P. Lanham, deceased. Party: J. P. Prescott. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 536 | 57 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | The Chicago St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad Company et al. v. Mrs. Anna J. Saunders et al | Shelby | Deed Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: The Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Company, the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Additional Defendants: Frank P. Pastor, exe. for the estate of David H. Pastor, dec.; T. J. White. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 656 | 162 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | Union & Planters Bank v. Harriet E. Hodgson, et al. | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Exhibit includes oversize broadside announcement and plat map of Ensley Plantation in Memphis, Tennessee. Exhibit located in WT Oversize Box 1. Additional defendants are unknown. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 661 | 78 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | W. F. Taylor et al. v. S. W. Hampton et al. | Shelby | Debt Dispute |
Cover is missing. Other plaintiffs: M. F. Embrey, John L. Wellford. Other defendants: Theodore Read, James M. Goodbar, William L. Clark, Frank G. Jones, R. W. Nicholson, W. A. Bonner, E. H. Woods. Case concerns method of debt payments for a company that went out of business and contracted to pay the debt partly from that year's cotton crops. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 524 | 292 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | William M. Farrington, et al. v. Gayoso Hotel Company, et al. | Shelby | Bond Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: William Stewart; Francis H. White. Other defendants: Continental National Bank; B. M. Estes; Memphis Trust Company. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 517 | 490 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1897 | W. J. Abston & Co. v. Mrs. Lou B. Rodgers | Shelby | Debt Dispute | West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 503 | 88 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1897 | Yentie L. Faver, et al. v. H. B. Parker & Memphis Trust Company | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Additional plaintiff: Nancy Faver. Plaintiffs sue for funds needed to raise the minor children of W. C. Faver, deceased. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 557 | 371 | Order A Copy |