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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 | 1911 | (unknown) | Unknown |
Exhibit Only. Exhibits to Deposition of Francis R. Weller. Photographs. Caption: Otter dams for tail race and power house; Lock and mixer plant; Right bank showing quarry. |
East | Range: 5 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 210 | 6 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | (unknown) | Davidson | Unknown |
Incomplete case: correspondence only. From Maggie & Mother to Alice [?] and Lula, dated Oct. 9, 1911, Edenwold, Tenn. Hopes Charley won't go to Texas; Roy is married; Sam is still at the workhouse; Granville & wife have gone home; Mrs. Gray is "laying with the "Death sleep"; don't hear from Dayton or Mansfield; Sam & Mattie [?] are well; we have 9 little chickens and 2 little kittens; mother is shelling corn. Letter found in ET box. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | (unknown) | Unknown |
Incomplete case: envelope only, bears two one-cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamps. Written on reverse is "John C. Charles" and "8689." |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 2 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | A. P. Harrel v. Fidelity & Casualty | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Case file is incomplete; depositions only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 67 | 270 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | A. W. Howard, et al. v. City Grain & Feed Co. | Maury | Damages |
Reply brief for plaintiffs only. Additional Plaintiffs unknown. Plaintiffs seek a refund on purchases "lacking quality." |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 491 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | A. M. Hancock v. Sam I. Heyman | Obion | Debt |
Defendant filed a plea in abatement, saying this court had no authority to hear this case and should dismiss the original warrant. The court agreed - the case was dismissed, and the plaintiff was ordered to pay the court costs. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1081 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | A. G. Sinclair, et al. v. Continental Savings Bank | Shelby | Breach of Contract |
Losses due to negligence to the sum of $159,500.00. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1083 | 489 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Arlington Hotel Company v. Caruthers Ewing | Shelby | Debt |
Cause of action: debt due by contract for legal services. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1099 | 84 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Alexander Nettles, Squire Waldron v. State | Haywood | Murder |
Nettles is charged with murder in the first degree, Harrison Kerr, July, 1910. Waldron, with murder in second degree. Murder occurred near St. John's School House in Haywood Co. Appeal, Supreme Court at Jackson, 1911. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1235 | 77 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Abner Nance v. State | Gibson | Murder |
Victim: Champ Balentine |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1257 | 67 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Auto Tire Vulcanizing Co v. W. R. Gilbert | Shelby | Debt | West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1262 | 26 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | A. W. Howard & Co. et al. v. City Grain Feed Co. | Maury | Damages |
Origin of Damages: Breach of Contract. Appeal brief only, no other case documents included. Add. Plaintiffs: Quarles & Coleman. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 492 | 21 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Albert Chinn v. Fannie L. Chinn | Fayette | Divorce | West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1062 | 11 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | Artelle Ward, et al. v. Kathleen Ward, et al. | Obion | Deed Dispute | West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1098 | 62 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | A. Aizensthatt v. Mayor& Alderman of the City of Jackson | Madison | Ordinance Violation |
Selling beer and keeping his place of business open past 10pm. |
West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1184 | 100 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Aaron Caldwell v. Virginia Fire & Marine Insurance Company | Lake | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff attempted to recover $1,500 from the defendant for breach of contract. Printed brief included. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1231 | 138 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Armour & Company v. Lexington Cotton Oil Co. | Shelby | Breach of Contract |
The case concerned a purchase of cotton oil by the plaintiff, who failed to make the delivery on time. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1233 | 150 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Addison D. Slagle, et al.v. City of Memphis | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Included is a petition for certiorari, three briefs for the city of Memphis, three briefs for Slagle |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1246 | 180 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | American Lumber Co. v J. A. Davenport& Sons | Shelby | Unknown | West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1262 | 7 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | Albert Couspeire v. Russe & Burgess | Shelby | Debt |
Cause of action: Couspeire owes $2,000.00 to Russe and Burgess for lumber |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1266 | 71 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Annie B. Fleming by next friend John Fleming v. City of Memphis & County of Shelby | Shelby | Damages |
Sued for $10,000. Claimed she fell in a gap while walking at the edge of a bridge on Valentine Ave., between Manassas and Oak streets. Claimed negligence that the area was not lit at night, causing her to not see the hole. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1277 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | A. A. Tucker v. City of Memphis et al. | Shelby | Recovery of Money/ Wages |
Exhibit: Copy of mortgage, city ordinance and acts of the legislature. Additional defendant: Memphis Artesian Water Department. Cause of action: recovery of $1,900 as a portion of salary. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1293 | 287 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Alston Boyd v. Stella Specht Deem, et al. | Shelby | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendants: Lorena Specht Best, Joseph Barry, David Barry, Williford Barry, John J. Barry, Joseph Specht, Fannie Specht, D. A. Fisher, Continental Savings Bank. The case is large and has been placed in three folders. Case deals with the estate of Joseph Specht. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1298 | 856 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Bertha Ripman Cherry v. Chicago Life Insurance Company, et al. | Chester | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Recovery of life insurance policy issued for Rufus M. Cherry, dec., husband of the complainant, for the sum of $1,250.00. Exhibits include insurance policies for deceased. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1292 | 94 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Bose Pillow v Board of Mayor & Alderman of Dyersburg | Dyer | Land and Title Dispute |
Included is a reply brief of counsel for defendant in error |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1252 | 363 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Birmingham & Northwestern Railway Company v. John Cockrill et al. | Madison | Other |
Additional Defendants: Pattie Price and Llewellyn Price. The dispute was over a right-of-way demanded by the railroad. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1280 | 171 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Birmingham & Northwestern Railway Company v. A. M. Alexander | Madison | Land |
Ex. A: map of property railway seeking to extend track into said land |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1285 | 248 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Bessie Drake v. N. C. & St. L. Railway | Franklin | Unknown |
Incomplete case file. Exhibit I documents only. Includes a Union Pacific timetable with route map. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | C. B. Patterson v. Walter W. Fox | Unknown |
Exhibit Only. Newspaper clipping of an ad for a Seeburg organ - Style "M." From deposition of Walter W. Fox. Blueprint for organ. |
East | Range: 5 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 210 | 66 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | C. D. Hill et al. v. Memphis Hotel Co. | Shelby | Compensation |
Plaintiff and his wife claim that they left their bags with the door boy of the Gayoso Hotel, where they intended to register, then went to dinner, returning later to find that their bags had disappeared. They say the hotel is liable for their loss. |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 965 | 151 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | C. M. Owen, admr. v. Jackson Railway & Light Co. | Madison | Damages for Wrongful Death |
Owen admr. for & father of Clopton Owen who, on 29 Sept. 1908, was struck and killed by a streetcar owned & operated by the defendant as he was walking home from school. Owen sued for $25,000 in damages. Owen charges negligence in that the motorman gave no warning of his approach & the street car was not equipped with a fender which, had it been present, could have prevented the injuries that took his son's life. See WT 1281 & WT 1183 for additional parts of case. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1078 | 1620 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. Charles B. Creamer | Shelby | Condemnation |
Condemn a strip of land for street purposes. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1068 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Cora Brown & J. W. Brown v. D. C. Jennings, Vol. 2 | Shelby | Incest |
This is Volume 2 of the case only. The rest of the case is located in WT Box 1056. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1070 | 285 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Calvin Sanders et al. v. Solvent Savings Bank & Trust Co. et al. | Shelby | Property Dispute |
Emma Sanders is co-defendant. File contains appellant brief only -- no case file. The case concerns ownership and authentication of two notes of debt incurred by a Memphis church. Volume 2 of the case is in WT Box 111. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1072 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Clark E. Coe v. C. B. Clarke | Shelby | Damages |
$25000 damages. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1085 | 597 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Calvin Sanders, et al.v. Solvent Savings Bank & Trust Co., et al | Shelby | Property Dispute |
This is volume 2 of the case only. Additional plaintiffs and defendants could not be determined from Vol. 2. The appellant brief is in WT Box 1072. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1116 | 360 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. E. A. Meriwether, et al. | Shelby | Property Dispute | West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1117 | 14 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. A. W. Hogin& wife, Lee Cooper Hogin | Shelby | Damages |
$3000 in damages for water flowing from adjacent property and lessening the value of the defendants property |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1240 | 175 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Cella Starks v. Lovely Starks | Haywood | Divorce |
Cella was the wife & Lovely was the husband. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1249 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. T. J. Jacobi | Shelby | Petitions for Certiorari |
Penal sum of $250 owed by defendant. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1275 | 64 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Conflict Between the Act of Congress known as "Employer's Liability Act" | Unknown |
Booklet exploring labor law and liability act of Congress. Name "Higgins" written across front. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 21a | 33 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | Cora Brown & J. W. Brown v. D. C. Jennings | Shelby | Incest |
Cora Brown mother of Pearl Brown, a minor; J. W. Brown her step-father. Plaintiffs sued defendant for $50,000, charging that on 31 Aug. 1910, he abducted Pearl Brown without the consent of her parents "for the purpose of prostitution and concubine." Defendant states that the Browns had once lived on his place & that Pearl Brown asked for his help in escaping her step-father's sexual abuse. There was a warrant for J. W. Brown's arrest on charges of incest in Tippah Co., MS. Volume 2 is in WT Box 1070. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1056 | 333 | 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 | 1911 | Charles Rowland, admr. V. C. D. Hendrickson Lumber Co. et al. | Shelby | Breach of Contract |
Rowland is administrator for W. A. Rowland, deceased; C. D. Hendrickson is also a defendant. Case involves storage and shipment of lumber. Ledger pages, p. 25 included. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1114 | 130 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | C. M. Owen, admr. v. Jackson Railway & Light Co. | Madison | Damages for Wrongful Death |
Plaintiff administrator of Clopton Owen, deceased. |
West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1183 | 467 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. Memphis Railroad Terminal Co. et al | Shelby | Land, Sale of |
Additional defendants: Illinois Central Railroad Co., Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway, Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, St. Louis - Southwestern Railway Company Exhibits include: Memphis Railroad Co. ordinance |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1233 | 180 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | City of Memphis v. Virginia Clarke | Shelby | Damages |
$2000 in damages for property on Trainor Ave. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1239 | 155 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | C. T. Sullivan v. City of Memphis | Shelby | Wrongful Termination |
Cause of action: Restoration of a public position. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1244 | 39 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | C. D. Smith v. Union Square Land Company | Shelby | Other |
Cause of action: Rescind a land trade. The case is large and has been placed in four folders. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1273 | 764 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Charles E. Denton v. J. H. Moselage, et. al. | Shelby | Damages |
Additional defendants: William Richards, Louis Tighe, J. A. Evans. Sued for $2000. Sued claiming the defendants were excavating a lot next to the Columbia Theater Building and damaged the North wall of building. Denton was the lessee of the building. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1277 | 140 | Order A Copy |