Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1848 (unknown) Claiborne Unknown

Sheriff's bond, $12,500, signed by James B. Smith, N. H. Moone, Houston McBee, Lafayette Evans, Edward Kelly, Jacob Mayers, William McBee, Jeramiah Hopper, Salamon Dobkins, Jacob Parks, Wiley Huffaker, and John Cardwell.

 East Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 787 3 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 Alice Walker, et al. v. William Rogers Claiborne Estate Settlement

Additional plaintiffs: Amey Walker, Mary Walker, James Walker, Daniel Walker, William Kincaid. This controversy over the estate of James Walker, dec.

 East Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1123 95 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 Joseph Jones v. Andrew Buchanan, et al. Claiborne Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Other defendants: Archibald Cooper & wife, Elizabeth Todd Cooper; Alfred B. Jackson & wife, Harriet L. Todd Jackson; Nathan Buchanan. Plaintiff purchased plot of land in Tazewell, TN, from defendants, which, apparently, they did not have proper title to.

 East Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1123 22 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 Madison Burchfield v. Willis Harper Claiborne Debt

Plaintiff claims the defendant is indebted to him for 75 cents in fines during work on a rail road for failing to "send his black boy Wiley to work on rail road as the law directs or failure to attend according to the law".

 East Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1170 13 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 State v. Thomas L.W. Sawyers Claiborne County Issues

Motion for filing to pay revenue. Defendant is the collector of state revenue for Clairborne County. Also sued are the defendant's securities: William Houston, Benjamin Linell, & Thomas J. Johnson. Sued for $666.36 for failing to collect revenue from the county due to an illness. Mentioned in the "Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the General Assembly" book, Chapter CLXII.

 East Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1167 9 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 State v. Jesse Brady & Louisa Scott alias Eliza Scott Claiborne Lewd Behavior

Jury convicted Brady, negro/mulatto man (also called Portuguese or French), & Scott, white woman, with misdemeanor of unlawfully living together as man & wife. Ten years prior, they left Green County & came back a month later, saying they had married in South Carolina, & continued to live as such upon moving to Claiborne County a year ago & until this suit brought. Brady's mom & siblings were white. Def. asked judge (but he refused) to instruct jury Brady could not be convicted if his mom were white.

 East Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1142 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1848 William W. Hollingsworth, admr. of Sarah Braden, dec. v. George Braden, admr. of John Braden, dec. Claiborne Other

Cause is trespass on the case. Before she died, Sarah Braden sued Defendant for failure to pay rent for a place he rented from Sarah's agent (John Hunter). Though the style of case is against George Braden as admr. of John Braden, dec., the claim appears to be against George Braden individually. See also box 2a.

 East Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1123 27 Order A Copy