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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1898 | Ann Eliza Yoe v. R. H. Sansom | Knox | Debt Dispute | East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 | 7 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Alf T. Hayden v. City of Memphis | Shelby | Other |
Cause of Action: Misuse of office. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 687 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Andrew Knott v. John Baxter | Knox | Damages |
Baxter sued Sam Miner and Andrew Knott for a debt of $500. Miner signed a promissory note at the previous trial but still has not paid. Baxter appeals and then sued for damages of $1000. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 3 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Amanda F. Johnson v. Isadore Johnson, admr. for Ross Wood | Shelby | Estate Dispute |
Dispute over the estate of Louisa J. Hardwick. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 652 | 73 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Britt& Betts v. W. T. Watson | Henderson | Rent Dispute | West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 689 | 101 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Brennon & Co v. Hill & Ballentine | Giles | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 53 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Butler Jack v. J. M. Harris | Shelby | Other |
Cause of Action: recovery of commissions on sale of real estate under $500 dollars |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 699 | 86 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Bamberger Bloom & Co. v. F. W. Davis, exe. | Shelby | Debt Settlement |
Davis is the executor of D. C. Barrow, deceased. The case involves the collection of $144.33 based on a promissory note dated July 1888. |
West | Range: 81 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 796 | 53 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | C. J. & A. B. Turley v. Dan Dickerson | Rhea | Unknown |
Incomplete case file; bill of costs only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 21 | 1 | 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 Co. v. Mrs. Georgie E. Rogers | Shelby | Damages |
Mrs. Rogers originally sued by husband & next friend, Abner Rogers, for $5000 in damages. On 4 April 1897 she seriously injured her foot & ankle while disembarking from one of the railroad's cars. Track was being worked upon; the area nearest her stop was negligently piled high with rocks that she had to step on to leave the car, thus causing her fall. Mrs. Rogers resident of Collierville; she was visiting her father, Judge Eldridge, in Memphis. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 687 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | C. J. Herring Cattle Company v. W. W. Carnes, Sherriff & B. Lowenstein & Bros. | Shelby | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Recovery of money collected by the Sheriff and paid over to B. Lowenstein & Bros. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 687 | 68 | 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 | 1898 | Citizens Street Railroad Co. v. Frank Frain | Shelby | Damages |
This is an action for damages for personal injuries claimed to have been inflicted on the Frank Frain, a passenger, through the negligence of the railroad company. His lip and leg were slightly cut in a crash on the train. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 701 | 61 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Cronauer & Company v. Rawlings & Tisdale | Shelby | Replevin |
Rawlings & Tisdale comprised of the following: E. L. Rawlings and Lew Tisdale. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 674 | 43 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | C. H. Pond & E. A. Shedd v. R. M. Quigley & Co. | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1015 | 327 | 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 | 1898 | Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railway Co. v. J. S. Smith | Shelby | Damages |
Smith had sued the railway company for killing two of his colts. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 703 | 101 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | D. A. Fisher v. R. G. & R. M. Bostwick | Shelby | Promissory Note |
D.A. Fisher is sued for his damages in the sum of $5000 on a promissory note |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 701 | 75 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Dan Shea & Co. v. Aetna - Standard Iron & Steel Co. | Shelby | Damages | West | Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 739 | 107 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | D. S. Louis v. H. C. Crider | Carroll | Attachment | West | Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 737 | 98 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Empire Furniture Co. v. F. G. Price | Shelby | Debt |
Debt for carpet purchased. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 707 | 24 | 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 | 1898 | E. Frost v. Linkhauer & Lehman | Shelby | Debt on Account |
Linkhauer & Lehman comprised of Jonathan Linkhauer & Simon Lehman. Plaintiff operates a tailoring business our of her home; charges that defendants refuse to pay her for $14.50 worth of clothes that she made for them. Defendants state that she had contracted with them to make the clothes and , in exchange, the bill would be paid in shoes for herself & her children. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 542 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | E. D. Rapp v. H. W. Bauman | Shelby | Debt |
Defendant's name also spelled Baumann. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 688 | 81 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Etta Stothart v. J. J. Williams, Trustee | Shelby | Petition for Mandamus | West | Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 739 | 50 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Fred Erkman v. W. W. Carnes, Sheriff | Shelby | Failure to Return Execution | West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 705 | 40 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Francis White exe. v. Kansas City& Memphis Ry.& Bridge Company | Debt |
Case Incomplete, brief only: Answer to Petition for Rehearing. Case concerns a debt of land. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 488 | 8 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | F. H. Peck v. L. K. Compton | Shelby | Wrongful Possession |
Over mastiff named "Rex." |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 674 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Gottfried Juette v. Olga Juette | Shelby | Divorce | West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 676 | 209 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | George Knox v. Macon L. Shearin | Shelby | Debt for Wages |
Exhibits include General Rules for the Circulation of Books at the Cossitt Library in Memphis, The Charter, Object, Plan and By-Laws of the Cossitt Library, as well as several deposit checks. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 687 | 160 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | George W. Jeter & D. L. Duke v. A. S. Harris | Weakley | Debt |
Debt due by note. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 723 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | H. E. Carter v. Washington Life Insurance Co. | Hardeman | Non-payment of Goods/ Wages/ Servic |
Incomplete case. Deposition and bill of exceptions; |
West | Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Hack Drivers Union #1 of Memphis v. Timothy McCoy | Shelby | Possession, Unlawful |
The union is sued McCoy, previous union treasurer, for $76, the balance in the treasury at the end of his term. McCoy is refusing to relinquish the money. The folder also contains two legal briefs. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 654 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. W. B. Mitchell, admr. of R. L. Mitchell, dec. | Weakley | Damages for Wrongful Death |
The deceased was "a negro boy about 22 years old who had been afflicted for many years with Epilepsy." As he grew older, his seizures became more frequent. Testimony indicates that his father had been warned many times to keep his son away from the railroad tracks. In June 1898, R. L. wandered onto the tracks, had a seizure, and was run over by a train. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 675 | 167 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. H. N. Selk | Obion | Replevin | West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 707 | 24 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | John Beasley v. D. L. Snodgrass | Hamilton | Damages | East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 43 | 360 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | Joseph Lauric v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company | Shelby | Damages |
Amount of damages: $10,000 for injury falling off of a train |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 648 | 210 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Joseph Turcott v. The Y. & M. V. R. R. Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Defendant is the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Plaintiff, a blacksmith, was blinded on the job and blames negligent connecting and wrapping of a steam pipe for causing his injury. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 654 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | J. T. Rogers & Bros. v. Bowdre Bros. | Shelby | Trover |
Bowdre Bros. is a firm composed of Walter T. Bowdre and Stephen P. Bowdre. Trover is a common law action to recover goods that have been wrongly appropriated by somebody else. The disputed item is a Milburn Hydraulic Press. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 656 | 86 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | James Nichols v. J. O. Irwin | Hardin | Debt |
Debt is for the value of one mare and colt advanced on a parasol sale of a tract of land. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 664 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | J. F. Roberson v. N. A. McMillan, Trustee of Crockett County | Crockett | Taxation, Unlawful | West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 678 | 23 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | John Skillern v. Insurance Company of North America | Hamilton | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Case involves insurance for a house that burned down. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 29 | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | John Houghett v. William Harness | Scott | Unknown |
Case file is incomplete |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 69 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | John Graham, in error v. Lucretia McReynolds, in error | Marion | Marriage, Breach of Promise |
The defendant in error, Lucretia McReynolds, sued the plaintiff in error, John Graham for $50,000 in damages for "intending her ruin," debauching, and knowing her "carnally," which resulted n the birth of a child. McReynolds and Graham had entered a contract for marriage that the plaintiff in error had refused to honor. Majority of case in ET 1785 (644 of 661 pages) |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 90 | 661 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | J. F. Russom v. J. H. Mitchell & Sons | McNairy | Breach of Contract |
For use of a cultivation machine. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 640 | 64 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | John P. Gause v. R. A. Best | Lauderdale | Replevin | West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 654 | 12 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | J. R. Fletcher, Guardian v. J. N. Hollifield | Madison | Attachment |
Plaintiff claims the defendant owes him $250 for two years' rent and is selling his cabbage crop to avoid paying what he owes. Fletcher is the guardian of the minor children of W. D. Fletcher, deceased, who evidently owned the disputed property. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 654 | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | J. T. Rone v. Alonzo May | Madison | Rent Dispute | West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 694 | 30 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1898 | John P. Balch v. James Medlin | Madison | Other |
Plaintiff sued defendant regarding a disputed ownership of a cow. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 664 | 27 | Order A Copy |