Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1865 Henry Harris v. J.W. Thornburgh Grainger Debt, Petition on

Thornburgh executed $100 note in favor of Harris, who gave Confederate money (rebel money) for the note, which Thornburgh used to pay another debt & to pay a high price for medicine. Dispute over whether Confederate money qualified as consideration. Thornburgh argued no consideration for note, since Confederate money not recognized by law as money at all & had no legal value.

 East Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1141 10 Order A Copy
View Entry 1865 Samuel Gill v. William Williams et al Grainger Estate Settlement

Gill was security for exes of Etheldred Williams, dec, w/Def James T. Shields & 2 other securities (Samuel Bunch is dead; A.P. Green in "failing condition"). One exe, William Tate, has died, w/Shields & Warham Easley his admrs. Add. Defs: Jas Williams (in Constantinople, Turkey), children Catharine, Mary, Wm; Thomas W. Humes, wife Cornelia, children Andrew, Mary (m. Boyd); John H. Crozier, wife Mary, children Etheldred, Cornelia, John, Jas, Wm, Elizabeth, Lucy, Mary; more. SEE related case ET Box 1052.

 East Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1203 186 Order A Copy
View Entry 1865 State v. John H. Casey Grainger Robbery

Defendant pleaded not guilty. He was sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary and hard labor for ten years. He was rendered infamous and ordered to pay the costs of prosecution.

 East Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1120 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1865 State v. Eugene Parham Grainger Robbery

Judgment only. Case is incomplete.

 East Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1121 3 Order A Copy
View Entry 1865 West& Villeloe v. John Beiler Grainger Conversion

The suit was instituted for the taking and converting use by Confederate soldiers a certain leather. The plaintiff claims that the defendant knew where the leather was kept because he had attempted to buy leather from him in the past. He says it was under his direction that the leather was taken and that the leather was delivered to the defendant and sold for the financial benefit of the defendant.

 East Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1196 4 Order A Copy