Annie Shavin is sued the S.H. Kress Co. for damages in the amount of $5000.00 for personal injuries she sustained while she was a customer in their store. She slipped and fell down their basement stairs when she went to look at an item for purchase.

Additional Defendants: Sam Riley & W. T. Bond, admr. of estate of H. E. Kirk, Melvin Kirk's father. Bussler sues defendant for $5000, charging that ca. 23 May 1934 he was struck by a car driven by Kirk and seriously injured. Further alleges accident was caused by Kirk's negligent operation of the vehicle as he was intoxicated at the time & driving at a high rate of speed. Plaintiff seeks attachment of Kirk's car & his interest in his father's estate. Riley holds note on car.

The defendant sued for damages as a result of an accident involving a truck of the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company while the defendant was riding his motorcycle. Photographs of accident site.

Plaintiff alleged that he was injured in an auto accident in which defendant was at fault. Plaintiff sued defendant for damages.

$5,000.00 in damages. Photograph of wood stairs fastened to page 35.

Plaintiff sought damages resulting from the interference by the defendants with the flow of the water in a sluice in the Little Tennessee River separating the mainland of petitioners' farm from an island included in the boundaries of the farm. Briefs, Errors, and motions to re-hear only. Related to 6 folders in ET box 1493. Oversize topographic map in M-17-17.

Additional Defendant: Ray Bennington, son of W. G. Bennington. Originally Bennington sued Knoxville & Harley Lee Hill for $10,000 damages. On 6 Aug. 1929 their son's small dog became ill & was put down by Hill, a Humane Officer who did not remove the body for days despite repeated requests to do so. The son found the body & picked it up, becoming ill from exposure to the "poison fluids" and "putrefying flesh". His health is now permanently impaired due to the city's & Hill's negligence.

All three cases came from a single automobile accident between a car driven by Mr. Gray and a car driven by Mrs. Bragg. Both cars were carrying passengers and there were several injuries.

Plaintiff was the widow of Basil T. Widby, dec. who was killed in an accident with a Mack truck driven, owned, and/or contracted by defendant companies and individuals. Additional Defendants: H.M. Green, J.J. Johnson, Arthur Alexander-doing business as Ideal Coal Company, C.O.D. Coal Company, John Riddle, The White Company. Exhibits: IRS documents, correspondence See also ET1556

Damages for $25,000.00 in personal injury to James A. Morgan while on a sidewalk. James A. Morgan is minor son of Charles Morgan.

Plaintiff sued for $25,000 damages. Charges that on 29 Nov. 1934 as he was returning to his home at Tusculum College after attending a football game in Bristol, VA, the car that he was driving was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Bragg. Plaintiff, an instructor at Tusculum, alleges that he suffered serious & permanent injuries & that deft. was driving recklessly. Plaintiff's wife, Mrs. Mary Wilson Gray & a Mrs. Clemmons also passengers in his car. Mrs. Bragg a nurse at National Soldiers Home.

Additional plaintiffs: Harley Hill. Additional defendant: Ray Bennington, by next of friend.

Dossie Bledsoe sued John Gibbony for damages caused to his automobile when it was struck by John Gibbony's car. He states that the crash caused $197.00 worth of damage to his car.

W.E. McGee and his daughter Martha McGee sued Eckerd's drug store for personal injuries suffered by Martha. She was given a "poison" from the drug store that was not to be given to minors without permission and almost died. She tried to kill herself. See also box 1542

Damages of $1000.00 for negligently operating a bus

J.M. Rollins is sued the Falls City Products Co. for damages for injuries he received when he was hit by a truck owned by the company as he was crossing the street.

Plaintiff, admx. of Hugh Buckner, charges Southern Railway with negligence in his death & is sued for $50,000 damages. On 2 May 1933 Buckner, an employee of the railway, was riding the company's locomotive back home from his work at the John Sevier Yards when the locomotive in which he was riding collided with a switch engine. Buckner died on 5 May 1933 of injuries sustained in the crash. Plaintiff accuses deft. of operating the locomotive negligently, thereby causing the accident.

Additional Defendants: Harold Morley, Walter B. Morley, Claude C. Morley, Mack Free. Exhibits: 2 - medium sized photos.

Plaintiff also referred to as Joan. Defendant in error brought suit against the plaintiff in error to recover damages done to the def. by failing to abide by a contract for renting a farm under $200. There appears to be a controversy surrounding the defendant's pauper oath and ability to appeal the original judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Further details of the case are unknown.

Beers, driving recklessly, struck J. D. Bryant, a minor, on a street in Alcoa. The boy was standing at a street corner when Beers ran over him. He suffered great injury and mental anguish, and was permanently disabled. The Bryants sued Beers for ten thousand dollars. Includes 4 photos of the accident site and a statement from George Tolbert.

Additional Plaintiff: H.D. Dendy. Additional Defendant: Loretto Graham (wife of Marshall Graham). The Grahams sued after the death of the nine-year-old daughter, Louise, who was hit by a truck owned by the plaintiff and driven by Dendy.

Junius Lock, a minor, sues by his next friend, Benjamin Lock for damages for personal injury caused by his stepping into an open meter water box on the side of the road.