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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1870 Antonio Montedonico v. Paul A. Cicalla Paul A. Cicalla et al.. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants - Paul Cicalla & Lewis Montedonico

 West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 41 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1922 Anthony McNichols v. City of Memphis Shelby Land and Title Dispute Middle Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 405 90 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Annie Evans v. Robert Macklin Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 702 76 Order A Copy
View Entry 1900 A. E. Pearson v. John Colbert & Dan Shea Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 798 53 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 A. Sax v. J. B. Peebles et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: W. H. Fitzhugh, S. M. Neely, and Le. Boswell. See WT 965 for additional part of case.

 West Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 942 359 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 A. P. Humburg v. Union & Planters Bank & Trust Co. Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 929 98 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 Annie Graham, et al. v. Napoleon Hill, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Joseph Graham, Mrs. W. A. Erwin, Blanche Graham, Owen Graham, Sallie Graham, Floy Graham, Edith Graham. Additional defendants: Mrs. Napoleon Hill, Mrs. Floy McFarland, L. B. McFarland, Thomas Graham.

 West Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1043 369 Order A Copy
View Entry 1911 Alston Boyd v. Stella Specht Deem, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: Lorena Specht Best, Joseph Barry, David Barry, Williford Barry, John J. Barry, Joseph Specht, Fannie Specht, D. A. Fisher, Continental Savings Bank. The case is large and has been placed in three folders. Case deals with the estate of Joseph Specht.

 West Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1298 856 Order A Copy
View Entry 1914 Allen Washington v. Sarah E. Smith, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendant: Charles Smith. Additional name associated with the case: Sarah Kimball. The case has been placed in two folders.

 West Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1315 422 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Andrew McKinley et al. v. Patrick Sherry et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Both Sherry and his co-defendant, Dennis Saxton, were from Shelby County. John McKinley died leaving two lots of land in Memphis. The plaintiffs include Andrew McKinley of New York, Luther T. Thurston of Kentucky, Mary Churchill of Louisville and her daughter Mary Moss Churchill, Julia January and her husband Derick A. January of St. Louis, and Robert M. Patton of Alabama. Plaintiffs allege that the lots were never sold to the defendants and that they obtained possession of them illegally.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 15 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 A. A. Barnard v. M. E. McAlister, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

The dispute concerns property that was part of a divorce settlement, and among several other things, the complainant accuses her ex-husband of fraud.

 West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1890 A. Silberberg v. R. A. Lytle et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Defendant: R. A. Shields, partners in firm Lytle & Shields. Lytle, admr. for Sarah Morrison, dec.; defendants allege she deeded them a lot in Memphis as security for 823.85 debt. Her heirs sold A. Silberberg part of the land for $1600. Question as to whether Morrison had legal claim to land & whether heirs responsible for her debt. Heirs: Mattie A. Lighthart, husband John H. Lighthart, granddaughter Mattie A. Davis & son-in-law Harry Lighthart.

 West Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 566 312 Order A Copy
View Entry 1917 Alice Wilson et al. v. Samuel Wilson et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Other plaintiffs: Henry Wilson, Johnnie Wilson, Alley Wilson, Bettie Wilson. Other defendants: Gilbert G. Wilson, Phil Wilson, President Wilson, Crawford Wilson, James Wilson, Henry Tschatter, Amelia Ritterband, Herman Ritterband, J. T. Spence, & I. Dinkelspiel. Folder includes two briefs.

 West Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1123 142 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 A. A. Schoolfield v. W. E. Cogdell, et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional names: Sarah Rickett, Goodman Bros., L. L. Pearson, F. C. DeMuth, Mrs. E. F. Haberling. Additional cases: A. A. Schoolfield v. Elizabeth Gogedell, et al; W. F. Miller v. Elizabeth Cogedell, et al; Robt. McVeigh v. Elizabeth Cogedell, et al.

 West Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1143 74 Order A Copy
View Entry 1916 Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Company v. North America Realty Company of Milwaukee, Wis, et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Add. defendants: Erwin C. Uihlein, individually & Erwin C. Uihlein, Trustee.

 West Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1534 192 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Benjamin Anderson v. Thomas Sellers Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 26 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1888 B. A. Hollenberg v. John C. Hollenberg, a minor Shelby Land and Title Dispute

The number of pages includes 2 attachments. John C. Hollenberg was a minor living in San Francisco.

 West Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 412 21 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Barzilla G. Rainey et al. v. The Memphis & Charleston Railroad Co. et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Eugene Mageveny, admr. Michael Leonard, dec; Daniel Hughes, admr. Peter Leonard. Additional Defendant: The Lagrange & Memphis Railroad Co. All plaintiffs own lots to which the railroads also claim title.

 West Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 496 299 Order A Copy
View Entry 1914 Ben Boon & J. W. Green v. W. H. Grimes Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Action brought to recover seven acres of land with the improvements made on it. Plaintiffs claim land under a grant from the state but Grimes states the state never held a title to the land. Land formerly owned by the Chickasaw Indian tribe, acquired by the government.

 West Range: 79 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1367 137 Order A Copy
View Entry 1925 Bernice Katherine Allen v. J. C. Allen Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Both parties were married in 1917. Bernice Allen sued claiming J. C. purchased a piece of property using money they both earned but failed to include her name on the deed. Bernice was requesting her 1/2 interest in the property.

 West Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1926 139 Order A Copy
View Entry 1880 Caroline Fanabee, et al. v. Marietta B. Justice et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

This is a land dispute and is in some parts hard to read. There are newspaper clippings in the case.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 25 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 C. Johnson & wife v. D. A. Campenton Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 721 37 Order A Copy
View Entry 1909 City of Memphis v. Lucy A. Balton, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Defendant formerly Lucy Tate. Additional defendants: Harold A. Balton, husband.

 West Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1194 173 Order A Copy
View Entry 1916 Chas. B. James Land & Investment Co. et al. v. Lawson Treadwell et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Dispute re: Memphis land at corner of Alabama Ave & Jones St., owned by Col. Robert Broadus Snowden (Civil War), whose wife Annie owned Peabody hotel (gift from dad Col. Robert Brinkley, Civil War). Snowden gave land to daughter but then put it in will. File includes 4 folders; transcript (which includes Snowden's will) in folders 1 & 2. Add. Pltf: The Charles B. James Sanatorium Co. (company that leased the property in dispute for historic Memphis hospital: James Sanatorium). Multiple Add. Def..

 West Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1388 961 Order A Copy
View Entry 1873 City of Memphis et al. v. Joseph Grieshaber Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Particular piece of land in Memphis, triangular in its layout, is the center of this dispute. Grieshaber purchased a large tract of land adjoining the triangular piece and tried to claim it as his own. The city of Memphis argues that the triangular tract of land was donated to the city some thirty years earlier by a Mr. McElmore for the purpose of a park. It seems neither side has an actual deed to the property. The city states it has been considered public property. 2 folders.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 18 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Catherine Hotter et al. v. D. J. Partin et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Anna Maitland & husband P. J. Maitland of St. Mary's Parish, LA; Henry Hotter & John Brennan. Additional Defendants: Emma E., Victoria & William Partin; W. L., Clarence, Charles & Walter Bryant. Plaintiff widow of John Hotter, other other plaintiffs his heirs except for P J. Maitland. William E. Butler sold land to Mary Jane Partin, her husband Ludwick Partin surety. Children: Daniel J., Mary E. (wife of W. L. Bryant), William A. Partin & Ludwick Partin, Jr.

 West Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 486 111 Order A Copy
View Entry 1907 County of Shelby v. Annie B. Snowden& R. B. Snowden Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 943 67 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 Charles L. Morton& Harry L.Morton v. I. B. Eaton Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Exhibits include plat map on page 109, printed briefs and checks. Case relates to the Walter Kennedy v. L. B. Eaton case located WT 1139,

 West Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1140 566 Order A Copy
View Entry 1900 Catherine Wilson et al. v. H. Schafer et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Robert Wilson, Elizabeth G. Dunham, and others. Additional Defendants: Reuben Jones, Adam Smith, and others. Land title disputes based on family members who died intestate.

 West Range: 79 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1355 300 Order A Copy
View Entry 1917 C. E. McCalman v. I. M. Gill et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Add. defendants: D.B. Sweeny, C.E. Schroll, F.H. Heiskell, J.M. Heiskell, E. Weatherford, & H.M. & A.M. Whaling. The defendants executed a contract to sell real estate to T.B. Wilkins, who paid monthly until $775 had been paid. The plaintiff then bought the property from Wilkins with one-half equitable interest. Elizabeth Wilkins then claimed rights to the property portion that had been sold to the plaintiff.

 West Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1491 36 Order A Copy
View Entry 1895 D. T. Porter v. Calvin Perkins Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Plaintiff sold a lot near city of Memphis to Perkins for $4750, $500 to be paid in cash and balance secured by notes of Perkins & deed of trust on property. Defendant refuses to accept deed, charging a defect in the title.

 West Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 639 48 Order A Copy
View Entry 1868 David W. Parish v. Minor Meriwether Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Dispute of acreage between deed and actual land; seeking refund of portion of purchase price paid

 West Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 3 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Dillard Love v. John Welch et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

These two men had ancestors who were brothers. Upon the brothers death, an agreement was made that their property would be split amongst their descendants. There is a dispute between Love and his family and Welch and his family. The plaintiff's are sued to have their title of one-half of the land in Memphis validated. 4 folders.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 19 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Davis Cockrill v. Samuel T. Williams et al., exe. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Other defendants, also executors of John A. Rives: Franklin Rives and Wright Rives. This case is connected to a pending case, in which the Rives executors are sued John T. Finnie and Charles Kortrecht for a debt due. The defendant's surname is spelled "Cockrill" on the cover of the record, and "Cockerell" elsewhere.

 West Range: 84 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 55 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1883 David H. Poston, admr. et al.v. Joseph R. Williams et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: W. E. Greenlaw, exor. W. B. Greenlaw. Poston admr. for J. O. Greenlaw. Additional Defendants: Henry T., Edward W., & Benjamin R. Williams & Mrs. Jane T. Williams, wife James R. Williams. Photo marked No. 2 between pp. 54 & 55

 West Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 228 474 Order A Copy
View Entry 1883 E. M. Bateman, et al. v. Ila G. Broom, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Co-plaintiff is Forrest Bateman, a minor. Co-defendant is Nancy Broom, Ila's wife. Folder includes a number of legal briefs.

 West Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 222 219 Order A Copy
View Entry 1891 Estelle G. Waldran v. G. W. Handwerker et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Defendants: Emma D. Christian, H. J. Lynn (Executor), Roman Richmond, Clara Richmond, Mrs. Margaret Richmond, Sarah M. Chapsky, F. T. Edmondson, Thomas Cubbins, Am. Wortham, Mary K. Kaufman, Mrs. Johannah Kaufman, C. M. Waldron Marcus S. Chapskey.

 West Range: 83 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 333 98 Order A Copy
View Entry 1887 E. A. Clark v. J. S. Wilkins Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 397 5 Order A Copy
View Entry 1888 Emile Witzman v. Samuel Hirsch Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 411 52 Order A Copy
View Entry 1888 Edward Shaw v. Peter Watson, et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: Elizabeth Shaw, Lucy Lewis, John Lewis, William Phillips, J. Castles

 West Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 487 280 Order A Copy
View Entry 1890 E. H. Word v. D. J. Sharpe Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 572 246 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 Eastmoreland Land Co. v. Mary S. Goodwin et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Co-defendant: Robert B. Goodwin. This is a complex land case involving the subdivision of a subdivision, the requirement of property owners to build a street, and "a bill to remove cloud from title." File includes two printed briefs and two other documents. Subdivision plat, Eastmoreland Land Co., p. 17.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1025 63 Order A Copy
View Entry 1892 Emily Simmons et al. v. L. B. Eaton et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Defendants: L. B. Eaton, the heirs at law of J. M. Saint and J. B. Clough. Plaintiffs: Emily Simmons and heirs at law of Thomas H. Merrill.

 West Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 373 60 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 1889 Elizabeth W. Hays et al. v. Napoleon Hill et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Other plaintiffs: Samuel J. Hays; James W. Hays; Minnie V. Hays. Other defendant: Kansas City Land Co. Folder includes several legal briefs.

 West Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 486 63 Order A Copy
View Entry 1890 Elizabeth P. Dyer v. F. P. Poston & M. C. Pearce Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 564 133 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Edwin C. Kimball v. M. Nealis Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Other names in the case: Clara Lee Bailey & John J. Bailey, who earlier owned the disputed property.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 746 106 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 E. G. Robinson v. W. W. Bierce Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 753 300 Order A Copy
View Entry 1868 Fleming F. Freeman et al. v. Thomas Freeman et al. Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Mrs. Frances Ann Edwards, Lemuel Wilson and Sue Graham McDuffie by their next friend Samuel C. Edwards; Additional defendants: Commercial Bank of Tennessee, Savings Bank of Memphis, Carolina Insurance Company, German National Bank

 West Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 Francis White v. Lucinda Motley et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Defendants: Joshua C., Lizzie S. & Florence Alice Motley; Geneva Hunt. Lizzie & Florence Motley children of Jeanette & Antony Motley dec; Geneva Hunt child of a deceased daughter of Jeanette Motley. Francis White resident of Baltimore, MD. Jeanette Motley dec. 3 March 1877; Antony Motley dec. 3 Aug. 1877.

 West Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 252 284 Order A Copy

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