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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1912 | American Lumber Company v. Clarence J. McDonald | Shelby | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1088 | 164 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | Angello Garanelli v. Memphis Macaroni Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
$10,000 in damages for permanent injury to plaintiff's hand while working for defendant. Blueprint glued to page 81. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 141 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Ada Rogers v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff became ill after she was foced to walk in a heavy rain when the street car changed its route wihtout notice. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1499 | 95 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Adolph Hill, by next friend R. S. Christie v. Max Miller | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $10,000 for when he was riding a bicycle and was hit head-on by the defendant in his automobile. The plaintiff claims the defendant was negligent in that he was going in excess of twenty miles per hour, which was unsafe for the particular road. The plaintiff was thrown under the automobile, which was being driven by a Negro man employed by the defendant. The defendant left the plaintiff on the ground without checking on his injuries. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Annie Corbin v. J. H. Pope& James Pope | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Corbin is sued for $2000.00. Plaintiff was in the process of boarding a street car when she was struck by an automobile being driven by James Pope. She claims that not only was Pope speeding but he was trying to pass a stopped street car. The vehicle hit her hip and ran over her foot crushing and mangling it. She was confined to bed and in great physical pain. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1601 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Albert Lewis v. E. E. Nesbitt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff is sued the defendant for $500 for personal injuries sustained as the result of a car accident. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1603 | 199 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | A. W. Newsom v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
While walking on the sidewalk in 1918, an agent of the defendant negligently and recklessly ran one of its cars upon and against the plaintiff with great force and violence, knocking him down and crushing his foot, inflicting permanent and painful injury. Plaintiff sued for $20,000 in damages for that his foot had to be amputated and he was made a cripple for life. |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1664 | 297 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | A. A. Green v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $2,000.00 |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 943 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Alex Anderson v. Virgil Hunt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Hunt, a minor, sued Anderson after the latter's wagon accidentally dropped some large slabs of stone on the street which later resulted in injuries. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1052 | 115 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Arkansas River Packet Co. & Charles Price v. Amos Westbrook | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit includes black and white photograph of the Steamboat Delta parked along an embankment. Charles Price was first mate aboard the Steamboat Delta and was accused of assaulting Westbrook while he was unloading a buggy causing the buggy to fall on him. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1064 | 296 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Allen Wright v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail Road Company et al | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Damages for personal injuries and property damage in a train/wagon collision. An attorney addresses Mr. Wright as "Uncle Allen." Oversize photograph of train crossing located in WT Oversize Box 2. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1125 | 58 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Armour Slover v. Henry Nohsey and Hugh Schwab | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Slover was hit by a truck, owned by Nohsey and Schwab, while crossing Union Street in Memphis on March 8, 1929. |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2060 | 273 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Albriten Burgess, by next friend Viola Burgess v. Mrs. Frances E. Mason & H.E. Mason | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff alleges the defendants are justly indebted to A. Burgess in the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the minor by the defendants when they hit the plaintiff on his bicycle in their automobile. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 101 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Annie Cline & husband J. Cline v. J. A. Loudon | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Cline and her husband are sued J. A. Loudon for $5000.00. Annie Cline and her husband resided at 1970 Delmar St, in Memphis, a property belonging to J. A. Loudon, In Dec. 1915 and again in February, 1916 they notified Loudon that the back steps to the house were old and rotten. Loudon failed to repair steps. Annie Cline fell through the second step on 3-28-16, breaking her left arm, dislocating her wrist and fragmenting the bones in her hand, leaving her disabled. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1521 | 136 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Ada Lewis v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
2 folders. Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $5,000 for her injuries sustained as she was disembarking a train car owned and operated by the defendant and the conductor, without warning, closed the door and started off with the plaintiff's hand caught in the gate of the door. She was pulled along the street with great force, injuring her legs, back, neck, and internal organs. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1532 | 355 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Benjamin Hanniford v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury |
Sued for injuries suffered when a car belonging to the defendant struck his cart. |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 953 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | Burt Janyce v. Memphis Street Railway Company & Ford Bacon & Davis | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff Jaynce claimed he was injured while working for Ford Bacon & Davis, who had been hired by the Memphis Street Railway Company to perform repair work. Sued for $25,000. |
West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1163 | 121 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Citizens St. Railroad Co. v. J. B. McClure | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Debt for damages for negligent carelessness by the plaintiff to Carrie McClure. Original case was lost in a fire. Exhibits include newspaper clippings. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 506 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Citizens Street Railroad Co. v. C. C. Burke | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
C. C. Burke was prominent architect in Memphis. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 542 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | C. C. Burke v. Citizen's Street Railroad Company& Frank Smith | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for being struck by a horse and buggy used by the company to make repairs. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 652 | 94 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Citizens Street Railroad Company v. M. Lewis | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Includes brief. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 687 | 132 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | Charlie Wicks v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 911 | 335 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1908 | C. G. Oglesby v. Illinois Central Railroad Company et al | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Additional defendant: Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Cause of action: damages for personal injury. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 973 | 127 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | Cornelius Young v. Interstate Cooperage Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1083 | 94 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | Carrie Evans v. Memphis Street Railway Co. | Shelby | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1098 | 132 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1909 | Carrie Gluck, admr. of Estate of J. K. Franklin v. S. T. Carnes | Shelby | Injury |
Carrie Gluck filed a lawsuit claiming her father, J. K. Franklin, was struck by a motor car operated by S. T. Carnes, resulting in the death of Franklin. Claim was for injuries and a charge of negligence on the part of Carnes. Includes printed copies of the "Petition for Certiorari". |
West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1200 | 369 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | C. S. Ginn v. D. W. Bishop | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
The defendant sued for damages after an automobile accident with the plaintiff. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1464 | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Crescent Cotton Oil Company v. Will Newby | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Will Newby was employed by the Crescent Cotton Oil Company. While operating a "molding machine which was designed for the purpose of pressing the cotton seed meal into molds for the presser," his left hand was caught in the molding machine and was "permanently injured." |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1476 | 119 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Carrie Taylor, by next friend Frances Blye v. The Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff, a minor, was boarding a train car owned and operated by the defendant when an agent of the defendant carelessly and negligently started forward. The doors closed upon the premature departure, catching the plaintiff's dress and foot before she had the opportunity to safely board the car. She was then violently thrown against the sides and floor of the car, causing serious and permanent damage. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1514 | 142 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Crescent Cotton Oil Co. v. Soloman Shaw | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Shaw worked for Crescent Cotton Oil Co. and was involved in an incident in which he lost his hand and a portion of his arm when he got them caught in some machinery. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1517 | 194 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | C. E. Williams & wife v. Edgar Newsum Black, by next friend F. N. Black | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
3 folders. Edgar Newsum Black is the minor son of F. N. Black. Edgar "sustained very sevre and permanent injuries as a result of a collision between his motorcycle, upon which he was riding, and the defendant's automobile being driven at the time of the casualty by Mrs. C. E. Williams." "The accident occurred at the intersection of Union avenue and Claybrook street, in the City of Memphis, on August 16, 1920." |
West | Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1702 | 594 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Henry J. Loomis | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Henry Loomis worked for the Cumberland Telephone Co. and while performing his duties on a telephone pole, the pole snapped and he was injured when he fell to the ground. He claims the company was negligent in keeping the poles safe and sues for damages |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 481 | 96 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Citizens Street Railroad Co. v. Lucia E. Robertson | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Case arose from an electric streetcar incident in Memphis. The defendant was the only person on the car when the conductor had "to attend to an urgent call of nature." It was claimed that Robertson left the car for a few moments, returned, and was thrown to the ground before she alighted the car, injuring herself in the process. By the time the case got to the Supreme Ct., the rail car company was claiming that she had been awarded an excessive settlement. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 701 | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | Clara O'Connell v. Citizens Street Railroad Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Sues for $10,000 damages for injuries sustained while exiting a car owned by the defendant. Claims negligence. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 724 | 289 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | C. C. Burke v. Citizens St. Railway Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Left side of pages 1-21 missing or damaged. Plaintiff sued defendant for $5000.00 for injury and damages due to negligence of Frank Smith, the driver of a horse and buggy and employee of the defendant. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 762 | 138 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | Consumers Ice Company v. J. E. Swain | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Swain was the conductor on a streetcar that collided with an ice wagon. The crash bruised and mangled his leg, causing him great physical and mental pain. Testimony: H. W. Rogers, C. B. Proctor, F. C. Nutzell, Miss Miller, Dr. E. E. Haines, H. A. Jones, R. H. York, and R. W. Parham. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 979 | 112 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | City of Memphis, Thomas R. Boyle,& Mrs. Virginia F. Boyle v. Rosa Badanis& Ben Badanis | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Rosa Badanis sued the plainitffs for damages resulting from a fall in a basement owned by Mrs. Boyle. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1464 | 135 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | City of Memphis v. Ada May Bobbitt, by next friend T. J. Bobbitt& T. J. Bobbitt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Ada May Bobbitt is the daughter of T. J. Bobbitt. She was six years old when she was walking over a bridge, maintained by the City of Memphis, and a banister fell off and knocked her on the head. After the accident, her eyes were crossed and she suffered from hearing loss. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1517 | 317 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | Delia Fitzhugh v. Louis Dush | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Defendant claims to have fallen into an inadequately covered hole on the property of Dush, a merchant, and is seeking damages for pain, suffering, and medical expenses. |
West | Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 96 | 103 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Dorothy Doyle, by her next friend Thomas Doyle v. Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Dorothy Doyle is a minor and Thomas Doyle is her father. Dorothy was crossing the street when "Gulf Refining Company's truck, operated and driven by the agent and employee of said defendant company, was negligently, carelessly and recklessly run into and against plaintiff, whereby she was seriously, painfully and permanently injured." |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1644 | 162 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | D. N. White & wife, R. E. White v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Cover page missing. |
West | Range: 81 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 820 | 113 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Dave Robinson v. J. W. Lusk et al, Receivers for the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail Road Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit materials are photographs of buildings and rail roads. The plaintiff filed the suit against the defendant to recover $10,000 in damages for personal injuries received by being struck by a train owned by the defendant. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1492 | 225 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Dry Block Mercantile Company v. Miss Edith Hodges | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
3 folders. Miss Hodges is sued for $30,000 damages for personal injuries caused to her when a truck operated by an employee of Dry Block Mercantile drove up on the sidewalk and hit her. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1743 | 624 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Ellen O'Connor v. Louis Erb et al. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $10,000.00 for the defendant's awning falling on the plaintiff's husband and killing him. Ellen O'Connor, widow of Patrick O'Connor. Additional defendants: J. B. Lake and wife Mrs. J. B. Lake. Newspaper clipping included on last page describing the incident. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 506 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Ellen F. Cowden v. Fred B. Young | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
This folder has no case file -- only two briefs. The lawsuit concerns an incident from 1894 when the defendant is said to have driven his carriage into the plaintiff's buggy (rockaway), causing her to receive a number of injuries, including a severely broken arm of which she claims never to have regained the use. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 526 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | Emma Thane v. R. S. Douglass | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Lawsuit was for damages due to personal injury less than $500.00. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 724 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Ed Wilson v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
One of the defendant's cars struck the wagon of the plaintiff causing sufficient injury to require his legs to be amputated. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 758 | 170 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | Erskine K. English v. W. R. Fleming | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1021 | 121 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | E. H.& Harry Walsh v. James Franklin | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Asking for $5000 damages. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1084 | 272 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Evelyn Liggins v. Ike Padawer | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Liggins sued Padawer for personal injuries sustained on January 10, 1929, "while she was a tenant occupying real estate consisting of a house and lot of the defendant on Queen Street, in Memphis." One of the floor boards on the house porch broke when Liggins was walking on it. She fell through the hole, "seriously and permanently spraining her ankle and knee and seriously damaging her leg." |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2059 | 61 | Order A Copy |