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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 | 1924 | A. J. Arrington v. Memphis Street Railway Co. | Shelby | Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages during which his automobile stalled on the railroad tracks and ultimately was hit by the defendant. Plaintiff claims it was beyond his control that the engine failed and believes the defendant was negligent for failing to stop. 3 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1740 | 196 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Alfred L. Rhea v. Mrs. Laura Lintz, et ux | Fayette | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Laura Lintz's husband--Marion J. Lintz. Dispute arising from contract made by Lintzs with Rhea for lumber, brick, etc. for the purpose of remodeling Lintz house. Account balance with Rhea is $1354.48. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1765 | 314 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | A. S. Butler v. Louise Koen & R. H. Koen | Shelby | Damages |
2 folders. Butler seeks $10,000 damages for personal injuries and damage to personal property in an automobile accident. The accident occurred on May 31, 1923. Butler was driving his car South on Mississippi Blvd. and turning onto Trigg Ave. "when the defendant's car, a Packard then being driven South on Mississippi Blvd….at a highly dangerous rate of speed ran into upon and against the plaintiff's car." |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1792 | 271 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Allen Seago by next of friend v. L. H. Carruth & J. M. Seago v. L. H. Carruth | Shelby | Damages |
This is not the original case file but rather several petitions to the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Allen Seago, a minor was sued to recover damages for personal injuries after he was hit by the defendant's automobile. |
West | Range: + Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1789 | 63 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | B. W. Cocke v. Wilkin M. Williamson | Shelby | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Plaintiff claims he was hired by defendant to build a house for him in Mason, Tipton County, TN but the defendant did not pay him. Amount sued for was $912.82. Contract was signed in 1924. |
West | Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1920 | 164 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Binswanger & Co. v. Frank S. Elgin et al. | Shelby | Damages |
Additional defendants: T. H. Tutwiler, receivers of Memphis Street Railway. Defendants removed 4 tracks on the street outside the plaintiffs place of business. Later they filled in the crevices with loose materials. Afterwards a car that was driving by threw up some of the loose materials from its wheel busting the plate glass window of the defendants business. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1783 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Charles A. Roe by next friend Mrs. O. W. Roe v. Blumenfeld Ice & Coal Co. | Shelby | Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for $10,000 for damages. Charles Roe, a minor was seriously injured when he was struck by a truck being driven by a negro named Dan Jones who worked for Blumnefeld Ice & Coal Co. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1778 | 158 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | C. P. Crocker v. City of Memphis et al. | Shelby | Damages |
Additional defendants: Memphis Artesian Water Department, F. G. Prout, M. J. Anderson, Thomas F. Stratton and A. Schwab. Plaintiff sued for $1,000 in damages after his son, Fern Crocker stepped into a ditch on the sidewalk. Plaintiff claims the city is negligent in leaving the ditch open and unprotected. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1783 | 77 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Estelle Lawson v. Jerome Broens | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Estelle Lawson sued for $500.00 in damages resulting from injury sustained in a car accident caused by the driver, Jerome Broens. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1746 | 106 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | E. B. Marshall v. C. McPeak | Tipton | Contract Dispute and Damages |
E.B. Marshall, trading and doing business as Wilbur Stock Food Co., entered into a written agreement with C. McPeak where McPeak guaranteed full payment for all goods ordered by one W.A. Freezor. Marshall alleges that McPeak owns a balance of $460.28 plus interest for goods. Exhibits: numerous company bills for products, financial records, handwritten correspondence. File in 2 folders and in both box WT1746 and WT1748. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1746 | 283 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | E. W. Reese, et al. v. Fleming Brown | Shelby | Damages |
Additional plaintiffs: E. K. Staggers, J. W. Cawthon. Reese and Staggers are partners in a business known as Rent-A-Ford. Brown was in an automobile accident with an auto owned by Staggers and Reese and driven by Cawthon. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1745 | 43 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Henry Loeb Jr. v. Kettlewell Bros. | Shelby | Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages for the painting of his Cadillac in the amount of $196.50 Attorney for defendant: D. B. Puryear |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1736 | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | J. W. Storms v. K. Frank Pine | Shelby | Damages |
Pine sued Storms for $10,000 in damages after Storms, in a car, struck and injured Pine, riding a motorcycle. Exhibit material: b/w photo of x-ray. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1735 | 142 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | J. C. Burdick v. American Railway Express Company | Obion | Damages |
In a magistrate's court in Obion county, J. C. Burdick obtained a judgment against American Railway Express Company for $13.12 due to improper handling and refrigeration of a shipment of fish made by the firm to Perry Feed & Commission in Hazard, KY on 6/10/1923. Shipment was sent C.O.D. and was returned to Burdick on 6/12/1923. When shipment of fish arrived back in Union City on 6/14 it had to be dumped. American Railway Express Company is appealing in the Civil Court of Appeals. See docket 24766. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1785 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | J. C. Burdick v. American Railroad Express Company | Obion | Damages |
J. C. Burdick is sued for damages sustained by him on a shipment of fish he shipped via defendant's lines to O.D. Caplinger, Marion IL, 1/31/1923. The shipment was returned to shipper due to improper handling and refrigeration. Cost $15.00. See also docket # 24767 Appealed from the September, 1924 term of Circuit Court, Obion County. See WT 1828 for additional part of case. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1785 | 134 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | J. H. Craven v. Holland & Kerr | Hardin | Damages |
J. E. Holland and U. H. Kerr are partners under the firm Holland & Kerr. Plaintiff is owner of lot of land located in Saltillo where he rented out to defendants a building & warehouse that was situated on that plot of land. The plaintiff claims defendants negligently placed a lighted coal oil lamp underneath a barrel that contained tar and oil and the buildings caught on fire and was destroyed. The plaintiff sued for $3,000 in damages. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1789 | 704 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Joe Young v. R. B. Lovelace | Shelby | Damages |
Defendant is accused of stealing $10 from Plaintiff without any cause. The defendant had the plaintiff confined at the police station and was subject to cruel treatment. Plaintiff is sued for $499 in damages. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1742 | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | J. S. Patterson v. Scott-Kelly Furniture Company | Shelby | Damages |
Suit is for "damage done to plaintiff's automobile by the defendant carelessly and negligently running into, against and damaging same." |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1745 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Knoxville Power & Light Co. v. Mrs. Lillie Morton, admr. | Knox | Damages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Lashlee Bros. v. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway | Benton | Damages |
Plaintiff is sued the defendant for $500 in damages for killing one Black Pole Angus bull on its line of railway in Benton county. O. P. Lashlee and W. H. Lashlee make up the Lashlee Bros. |
West | Range: 78 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1804 | 138 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Lake Cotton Company v. Loew's Lyceum Theatre Company, et al | Shelby | Damages |
additional defendants: Tennessee Wrecking and Building Materials Co., Fleischman Construction Co., and S. Malkin & Co.; seeking $10,000 in damages; plaintiff was caused to fall when theatre company was proceeding with destruction of buildings at No. 75 Union Ave. due to negligence; Ex A: list of property belonging to Lake Cotton Co destroyed Oct. 1919; Ex A: letter trustees of the estate of W. H. Wood; Ex A: photo of damage |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1778 | 258 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | M. E. Wilkey, doing business as Reliance Coal Co. v. Gayoso Coal Company | Shelby | Damages |
Wilkey sued for $1,269.78, or the cost of eight railcars of coal. The cars were delivered, but the payments were never made. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1751 | 185 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Miss Jennie Torian & W. C. Torian v. J. P. Andrews, et al. | Shelby | Damages |
Additional defendants: Mrs. J.P. Andrews and Gordon Andrews. Gordon was driving the family car, with Jennie Torian as a passenger, when he wrecked the car. Miss Torian sustained injuries and is sued for the damages. Housed in 3 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1770 | 458 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Mose & Ida Carthell v. Mobile & Ohio Railway Company | Gibson | Injury and Damages |
After receiving permission to ride in the coal car of and M&O train, M. Carthell was found and forcibly ejected from the moving train. The shove from the moving train left lasting permanent damage, Carthell's are sued for $10,000. Housed in 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1736 | 251 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Mose Knott v. Illinois Central Railroad Company | Gibson | Damages |
The railroad company rebuilt a bridge "where Bear Creek crosses said right-of-way." Knott claims that they obstructed the flow of water and caused it to flood his land. This left "holes and ditches" in his field. He seeks $2000 damages. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1777 | 240 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. S. T. Sparks | Carroll | Damages |
4 folders. "The suit was instituted…to recover damages for the destruction of a truck struck by one of the Railway's moving trains on a public crossing within the limits of the incorporated town of McKenzie, the suit being predicated upon a violation of the Statutory Precautions." |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1767 | 933 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Roy E. Freeman, et al.v. John Crafton et al | Gibson | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Additional plaintiff: Lottie Freeman. Additional defendants: J. N. Kelton, W. P. Kelton, Mrs. Bettie Hardy, Mrs. Inez Hoover, unknown and unborn heirs of W. P. Kelton. Case concerns the purchase of a house and lot in Trenton that was owned by the defendants. Defendants inhertied the property from W. P. Kelton |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1746 | 24 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Sothern Ry. Co. v. Greene York | Campbell | Damages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | T. W. Moses v. J. H. Murr | Monroe | Damages |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 94 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Thomas R. Hayes & Sons Inc. v. O. M. Lipford | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
First two pages missing. Plaintiffs (colored) owned funeral home in Memphis. Plaintiffs ambulance driver, Alex Rankin (colored) accidently struck O. M. Lipford causing severe injuries. T. H. Hayes Sr. had been indicted for embezzlement. Court unknown. See West Tennessee Box 1137 for possibly related case materials of the same case name. |
West | Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 876 | 56 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | T. Warren v. Illinois Central Railroad Co. | Gibson | Damages |
Case file is an appeal only. In the original case the plaintiff was sued the defendant for $2,999 for damages. Plaintiff claims the defendant negligently left cars along the public road frightening the two mules who were pulling his buggy, throwing him to the ground and causing personal injury along with damage to the buggy and harness. 3 folders. Exhibits include map, recipts & xray envelope. All located in WT OV 5. |
West | Range: 78 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1806 | 356 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | T. E. Anderson v. A. S. Anderson | Hardeman | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Plaintiff sued to recover the dollars owed after the sale of company stock in Anderson Mercantile Co. Parties entered a contract stating the plaintiff would deliver the 40 shares in capital stock to defendant and to pay for the same in cash or the equivalent at what the books of said company might show the said stocked to be worth at that time. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1774 | 251 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | W. B. Carey v. Ralph Tillette | Knox | Damages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | W. M. Brooks, et al. v. J. J. Riddle | Blount | Damages |
Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Wolf Kohn v. J. G. Cupples | Hardin | Damages |
Cupples initially sued Kohn for damages and back pay for opening and running a store for Kohn. Kohn appealed the initial ruling. Housed in 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1757 | 211 | Order A Copy |