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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1852 | Arthur C. White v. B.M. Barnes | Davidson | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 235 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Agnes Shelton, et al. v. Jonathan M. Pope, et al. | Montgomery | Slaves, Selling of |
Additional plaintiffs: Ellen Shelton, Marietta Shelton, Minerva Shelton, Eliza Shelton Additional defendants: Edmund Bradshaw |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 236 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Alexander C. Robertson v. Alice Robertson | Davidson | Land, Sale of | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Andrew Wilson v. Reuben Wilson, et al. | Overton | Fraud |
Additional defendants: William H. Turner and Richard Copeland. Andrew sued older brother Reuben for buying him out of his interest in a number of slaves for a fraudulently deflated amount, taking advantage of Andrew's need for money. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Alexander F. McFerrin& Benton L. McFerrin v. Albert Perry | Cannon | Trespass and Damages |
Case concerns detaining a 7 year old mare. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 240 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | A. Burger v. M. M. Brien | Cannon | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 242 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Abram H. King, et al.v. Jermet Hassell | Sumner | Estate Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: Robert M. King, William D. King, Jacob Horn Additional defendants: Miles Hassell, Isaac Harris, Martha R. Harris, Charles Gray, Catherine Gray, Harriet Norton, Albert Hassell, Elizabeth Hassell, Jocephus Walker, Percilla Walker |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 422 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Archibald C. White v. John C. Walker | Giles | Injunction |
In 1857, the county court recovered a judgment against White for $638.15 debt & $13.21 in damages. White disputed this judgment and said he owed Walker nothing and that he had paid every cent he ever owed him. White also claimed that he was unable to make a proper defense in the case against him. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 4 | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Archibald C. White v. Richard C. Suttle, et al. | Giles | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendant: C. W. H. Biles. White claimed that since 1840 he had transactions with Biles that led to indebtness and therefore as a result sold a tract of land to White containing about 62 acres. White agreed to give the recovery of the land if Bile paid him back $4600 in separate payments of $2300. White claimed Bile failed to pay either of these payments. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 4 | 134 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Aladden Parmley v. John Hale et al. | Bledsoe | Land and Title Dispute |
Add. defs: John G. Brazelton, Robert Cox, Edward Herndon. Parmley's land sold at execution sale to Brazelton, who sold to Hale, but description in sheriff's deed was defective, such that title was not conveyed. Defs. successfully sued to reform deed & have title divested out of Parmley, who tried to appeal, but confusion over bond on appeal led to disallowance of appeal, leading Parmley to file this Bill of Review. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1147 | 8 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Aquilla [Aquila?] Jones v. Joseph Williams | Grainger | Debt, Execution on |
Judgment rendered against Jones in favor of Williams, who then satisfied that judgment by levying on a parcel of corn (14 barrels) belonging to Jones, which corn Jones believed to be exempt from execution because Jones was a head of family. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1152 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Anthony Dibrell v. James Campbell, admr. | Davidson | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Archer J. Wood & Brother v. Lysander McGavock | Williamson | Fraud |
Other plaintiff: Johnson Wood. Plaintiffs were African Americans & bought a slave, Mariah, from McGavock. McGavock claimed she was healthy, but plaintiffs discovered she wasn't after purchasing her. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 32 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Ammon L. Davis v. Thomas Hamilton, et al. | Davidson | Debt |
Additional defendants: Silas Macey and A. T. Lavabelle. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 242 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Allen Knight v. Charles M. Bidwell et al. | Davidson | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Martha Bidwell, Henry Fry and wife Sarah, B. A. Bidwell, Jacob Bidwell, Bell G. Bidwell, Abner F. Bidwell, Martha V. Bidwell |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 242 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Albert R. Alley, guardian v. George S. Neville | Maury | Estate Dispute |
George S. Neville was a minor who sued his guardian, Albert R. Alley over the will of Clement H. Neville, dec. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 1 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Andrew Johnson v. George Haskell | Hamilton | Debt |
This is a debt case. It is involves a conflict over money owed for wood. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1152 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Bartley Barnes v. James Thompson | Davidson | Trespass and Damages | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 235 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Bank of Tennessee v. John W. Bosley et al.. | Williamson | Debt |
additional defendants - Nathaniel L. Harrison, John G. Boyd and Stephen West amount of debt $600.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 233 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Benjamin A. Davis v. East Tennessee& Georgia Railroad Co. | Bradley | Damages |
B.A. Davis is seeking damages from the railroad company because some of their tracks go through his land. Davis and the railroad co cannot come to an agreement on the amount of damages that should be paid so they are seeking help from the court and a jury |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1152 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Bank of Alabama v. Richard C. Whiteside | Maury | Unlawful Detainer |
Amount of damages $250.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 235 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Benjamin Webber v. David Patton & Baxter B. Dickens | Cannon | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 236 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Bradford & Sanders v. Western & Atlantic Railroad | Hamilton | Breach of Contract |
Bradford & Sanders had contracted the railroad company to convey a shipment of cotton for them. However, the cotton did not arrive. The Pl's sued to recover the value of the cotton. Incomplete case file; begins on page 5. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 21a | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Benjamin Jeanway v. Calloway Hodges | Jefferson | Trespass and Damages |
Plaintiff's name also spelled Jenaway. The way name is written, it also sometimes looks like Jeanway & sometimes like Seanway. Defendant entered plaintiff's property & cut down 500 oak & pine trees. Plaintiff sued for $500 damages. Could be related to case in ET 1147, but in that case, on transcript cover sheet, "Benj." crossed out & replaced with "Dan'l". Same year & same def, but that case doesn't mention cutting trees. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1143 | 72 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Barney Simpson v. John H. Peck& Henry Jackson Dick | Grainger | Other |
Peck and Dick were the executors of Benjamin Peck, deceased. Case deals with the hire of a Negro slave, Peter. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1166 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Bank of Tennessee v. Albert Loyd, et al. | Bledsoe | Debt |
Loyd owed debt to bank, but fraudulently sold one of his many assets, a valuable Negro man named Harry, to his brother-in-law Isaac E. Swafferd [Swafford?]. This was for the purpose of cheating the bank. Other defendants: Swafferd, Benjamin F. Bridgman, Stephen Hicks, Elliott H. Boyd, Reuben Rankin, and William McDowell. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1166 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles D. Crawford v. John Williams | Maury | Trespass and Damages | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 242 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Calvin Norris & Mahalia Norris v. C. L. Dalton & Betsy Dalton | Grainger | Trespass and Damages | East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 79 | 38 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Cave Johnson v. Peter C. Buck | Montgomery | Other |
Johnson became a joint security with defendant, Willie B. Johnson & Trebue for Oliver G. Waggnor upon a refunding bond upon the dissolutions of an injunction in a suit funding in Charlotte Chancery Court where George Patterson was the Complainant and Waggnor and others were the defendants in 1834. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 1 | 38 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | C. L. Wilcox v. S. W. Atkinson | Montgomery | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles M. Conger v. John D. James | Davidson | Debt for Rent |
Conger worked as carpenter for James. James claimed work was not done to the contracted standard. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles A. Tomlinson v. Richard C. Whiteside | Maury | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles H. Primm v. Zachariah Allen | Williamson | Fraud |
Primm, who is blind, claims Allen sold him a horse in poor health, taking advantage of his disability by misrepresenting the condition of the horse. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Cynthia Runyan et al. v. J.O. Shackleford, admr. of Scarbrough, dec. | Montgomery | Estate Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: W. H. Scarbrough, Henderson B. Scarbrough, John Scarbrough, William K. Colston and wife Polly, George Webster and wife Louisa, Polina Scarbrough, Martha Scarbrough, Whitney P. Scarbrough, David Runyan, Sarah Scarbrough, Plaintiffs continued: Clementine Scarbrough, Mitchell Scarbrough, Elbert Bayless, Ingraham Kay & Lee. William Williams, John Kerchival and Bronser Bayless, Jabez Gearius, Henry Andrews, Jesse O. Ingraham and Co., Clements. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 242 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles McClung v. The Western& Atlantic Railroad Co. | Hamilton | Trespass and Damages |
Case file is incomplete. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 69 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles Temple, et al.v. James M. Green, et al | Davidson | Estate Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: James Bashaw (minor) by George Dismukes, Thomas Bashaw (minor) by Madison Stratton, Ann Temple, Charles Dickson, Elizabeth Dickson. Additional defendants: Sarah Green, Stirling Goodrich, James Goodrich, John Hall, Edward Goodrich. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 383 | 91 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Charles Bright v. Isaiah McStuart | Greene | Trespass |
"to answer complaint of Charles Bright of a plea of trespass with force and arms for throwing down said Bright's fence at two different times and fencing up the said Bright's spring & depriving him from the waters & also for cutting three valuable trees to his damage fifty dollars." |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1166 | 100 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Dustin S. Dunn v. L. Mino Bentley et al. | Lawrence | Bond Dispute |
Additional Defendants: George T. Hughes, W. B. Chaffin, J. Lum Chaffin, executors of William Chaffin, deceased. In December 1852, Daniel Bentley, deceased sold to the W. B. Chaffin and T. E. Harwell a certain town lot on the public square in Lawrenceburg. Case appears to involve a bond dispute over the town lot. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 19 | 255 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | David Cleage v. Jacob Fisher & Augustus Fisher | McMinn | Debt |
Jacob Fisher became indebted to Samuel Cleage, Alexander Cleage, E. Birdseye [Birdseys?], and to Cleage & Crutchfield, merchants. Others involved: William Matthews, Andrew Hutsell, William T. Fisher, John A. S. Fisher, Henry H. Rider, Jacob Haller, Absalom Fisher, Hiram Tartar, James McDaniel, R. T. Engledow, James B. Taylor, Hilton Humphreys, Andrew McKeldin, William Burns, G. W. Mayo. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: Oversize Box 16 | 51 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | D. D. Claibourne v. Francis Parker | Trespass |
Only Opinion of the Court. Incomplete case. Cause of Action is an action of trespass for injury to plaintiff's land. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Daniel F. Jeanway v. Callaway Hodges | Jefferson | Debt Dispute |
Jeanway asking court for relief from execution issued on $9.04 judgment obtained against him by Ryal [Royl] Turner, who assigned it to Martin Hatcher, who assigned it to Hodges. Jeanway says never notified of original suit.Case possibly related to case in ET Box 1143, same year, same court, same parties, except pltf. is "Benjamin" F. Jeanway & case is about Hodges cutting trees on Jeanway's land. NOTE: Transcript cover sheet for THIS case (ET 1147) has "Benj." crossed out & "Dan'l" written instead. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1147 | 17 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Edward Vaughn v. T. Dotson, Jr. | Davidson | Debt for Wages |
Dotson administrator of William Chanler, deceased. Vaughn asserts Chanler owed him $350 for services. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | E. H. Childress v. Edwin W. Hickman | Davidson | Petitions for New Road | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Erasmus Ally v. George M. Rice | Marion | Debt |
This case is incomplete. This is an East Tennessee case. Rice did not pay Ally money that was owed to him. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 646 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Elias Butler v. Moses C. Winters | Anderson | Debt Dispute |
Butler filed motion against Winters for money he paid as security for Winters on a $75 note executed to Arthur Kirkpatrick. Dispute centers on alleged settlement between parties. Witnesses: Preston W. Butler (son of Elias), Nancy Winters (sister of Moses) |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1147 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Elias Barbee v. Watson Potter | DeKalb | Trespass and Damages | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 236 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Elijah Mears v. Henry H. McBroom & Benjamin T. McBroom | Cannon | Land | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 236 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | Edwin H. Childress v. John B. Halbert & Hardin Bostick | Davidson | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1852 | E. D. Robbins & his wife v. Wily B. Wagner, exe. et al. | Franklin | Wills, Contested |
The second codicils of Col. James Lewis' will was procured by fraudulent conduct of some unknown person - that an erasure was made upon a book kept by Col. James Lewis, by mean of which he was induced to make the codicil in question. Plaintiff: Mary E. B. Robbins. Unsure of additional defendants. Possibly the deceased other children. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 2 | 133 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | Estate of M. D. Bell | Blount | Unknown |
Incomplete case file; only document is schedule of estate, which appears to be signed by M. D. Bell. Individuals named in schedule: Isam Blankenship (dec.), Cal Wiley, William Walker (Clerk of Blount County Circuit Court), J. D. Hays, R. S. Cumming, M. W. Barnhill, James Irvin. See also ET 1158. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1152 | 2 | Order A Copy |