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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1907 | A. A. Green v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $2,000.00 |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 943 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Arkansas River Packet Co. & Charles Price v. Amos Westbrook | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit includes black and white photograph of the Steamboat Delta parked along an embankment. Charles Price was first mate aboard the Steamboat Delta and was accused of assaulting Westbrook while he was unloading a buggy causing the buggy to fall on him. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1064 | 296 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Albriten Burgess, by next friend Viola Burgess v. Mrs. Frances E. Mason & H.E. Mason | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff alleges the defendants are justly indebted to A. Burgess in the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the minor by the defendants when they hit the plaintiff on his bicycle in their automobile. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 101 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Ada Lewis v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
2 folders. Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $5,000 for her injuries sustained as she was disembarking a train car owned and operated by the defendant and the conductor, without warning, closed the door and started off with the plaintiff's hand caught in the gate of the door. She was pulled along the street with great force, injuring her legs, back, neck, and internal organs. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1532 | 355 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | Angello Garanelli v. Memphis Macaroni Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
$10,000 in damages for permanent injury to plaintiff's hand while working for defendant. Blueprint glued to page 81. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 141 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Ada Rogers v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff became ill after she was foced to walk in a heavy rain when the street car changed its route wihtout notice. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1499 | 95 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Adolph Hill, by next friend R. S. Christie v. Max Miller | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $10,000 for when he was riding a bicycle and was hit head-on by the defendant in his automobile. The plaintiff claims the defendant was negligent in that he was going in excess of twenty miles per hour, which was unsafe for the particular road. The plaintiff was thrown under the automobile, which was being driven by a Negro man employed by the defendant. The defendant left the plaintiff on the ground without checking on his injuries. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | A. W. Newsom v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
While walking on the sidewalk in 1918, an agent of the defendant negligently and recklessly ran one of its cars upon and against the plaintiff with great force and violence, knocking him down and crushing his foot, inflicting permanent and painful injury. Plaintiff sued for $20,000 in damages for that his foot had to be amputated and he was made a cripple for life. |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1664 | 297 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | Burt Janyce v. Memphis Street Railway Company & Ford Bacon & Davis | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff Jaynce claimed he was injured while working for Ford Bacon & Davis, who had been hired by the Memphis Street Railway Company to perform repair work. Sued for $25,000. |
West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1163 | 121 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Henry J. Loomis | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Henry Loomis worked for the Cumberland Telephone Co. and while performing his duties on a telephone pole, the pole snapped and he was injured when he fell to the ground. He claims the company was negligent in keeping the poles safe and sues for damages |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 481 | 96 | 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 | 1899 | Clara O'Connell v. Citizens Street Railroad Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Sues for $10,000 damages for injuries sustained while exiting a car owned by the defendant. Claims negligence. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 724 | 289 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | C. C. Burke v. Citizens St. Railway Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Left side of pages 1-21 missing or damaged. Plaintiff sued defendant for $5000.00 for injury and damages due to negligence of Frank Smith, the driver of a horse and buggy and employee of the defendant. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 762 | 138 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | Consumers Ice Company v. J. E. Swain | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Swain was the conductor on a streetcar that collided with an ice wagon. The crash bruised and mangled his leg, causing him great physical and mental pain. Testimony: H. W. Rogers, C. B. Proctor, F. C. Nutzell, Miss Miller, Dr. E. E. Haines, H. A. Jones, R. H. York, and R. W. Parham. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 979 | 112 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Citizens St. Railroad Co. v. J. B. McClure | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Debt for damages for negligent carelessness by the plaintiff to Carrie McClure. Original case was lost in a fire. Exhibits include newspaper clippings. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 506 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Citizens Street Railroad Co. v. C. C. Burke | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
C. C. Burke was prominent architect in Memphis. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 542 | 30 | 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 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 | 1914 | Charlie Wicks v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 911 | 335 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1912 | Cornelius Young v. Interstate Cooperage Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1083 | 94 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1918 | Carrie Taylor, by next friend Frances Blye v. The Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff, a minor, was boarding a train car owned and operated by the defendant when an agent of the defendant carelessly and negligently started forward. The doors closed upon the premature departure, catching the plaintiff's dress and foot before she had the opportunity to safely board the car. She was then violently thrown against the sides and floor of the car, causing serious and permanent damage. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1514 | 142 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | D. N. White & wife, R. E. White v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Cover page missing. |
West | Range: 81 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 820 | 113 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Dave Robinson v. J. W. Lusk et al, Receivers for the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail Road Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit materials are photographs of buildings and rail roads. The plaintiff filed the suit against the defendant to recover $10,000 in damages for personal injuries received by being struck by a train owned by the defendant. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1492 | 225 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | Delia Fitzhugh v. Louis Dush | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Defendant claims to have fallen into an inadequately covered hole on the property of Dush, a merchant, and is seeking damages for pain, suffering, and medical expenses. |
West | Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 96 | 103 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1893 | East End Railway Co. v. L. W. (Kirk) Allen | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $5,000.00 |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 587 | 117 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Ellen O'Connor v. Louis Erb et al. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $10,000.00 for the defendant's awning falling on the plaintiff's husband and killing him. Ellen O'Connor, widow of Patrick O'Connor. Additional defendants: J. B. Lake and wife Mrs. J. B. Lake. Newspaper clipping included on last page describing the incident. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 506 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Ellen F. Cowden v. Fred B. Young | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
This folder has no case file -- only two briefs. The lawsuit concerns an incident from 1894 when the defendant is said to have driven his carriage into the plaintiff's buggy (rockaway), causing her to receive a number of injuries, including a severely broken arm of which she claims never to have regained the use. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 526 | 57 | 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 | 1905 | Erskine K. English v. W. R. Fleming | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1021 | 121 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1920 | Ed Kolb & Henry Kolb, by next friend, Mary Kolb v. Memphis Street Railway Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit materials include: street diagram, Henry was driving his father's (Ed Kolb) truck on Young Avenue when he was "negligently, recklessly, and carelessly run down" by one of the railcars. Plaintiff also alleged that the crossing was improperly maintained, not allowing for proper checking of coming down the tracks. Housed in 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1750 | 257 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1910 | Fred B. Young v. Moralis Hall | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The defendant originally sued the plaintiff for injuries sustained while being employed as a carpenter for the plaintiff. Page count does not include published materials. Case is filed in two folders. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1245 | 161 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Frank Sicco& John Stahl v. City of Memphis& Max Miller | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff, Sicco, was injured when thrown from his wagon after running into a pile of sand left on the street by the defendant. Page count does not include published materials. |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1295 | 140 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Fannie M. Cooper v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff sued for $5000 in damages for train carrying her past her destination and then putting her off in a field where she fell into a cattle gap injuring herself. Case includes several newspaper clippings describing the incident. |
West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 506 | 70 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | Fred Miller Brewing Company v. Lizzie Miller | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The defendant sued the plaintiff for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her child, Eugene Maroni Miller, by the driver of a mule-pulled delivery wagon. |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 945 | 186 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | F. H. Tramble v. Memphis Street Railway Co. & Tony Lenzi | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $3,000.00. 3 printed briefs included. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1194 | 294 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1904 | George Kolp v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff was a passenger on the Memphis Street railcar when it went off the track and seriously injured him. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 710 | 125 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | G. D. Padgett v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Claims to have been injured when two street cars operated by the defendant collided. |
West | Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 913 | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Gladys Pittman by next of friend v. St. Louis & South Western Railway Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1064 | 25 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1918 | G.J. Stockley, by next friend Mrs. Harriet H. Stockley v. Mrs. Rowena Lee et al | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
2 folders. Includes printed brief. Add. defendant: Miss Rosa Lee. Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $25,000 for when he was boarding a street car and an automobile operated by a servant of the defendant hit the plaintiff, knocking him down from the street car platform and carried him along the street. The plaintiff seriously injured his head and body. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1518 | 431 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | G. W. Stephenson v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1021 | 46 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1925 | G. Schwartz v. Jeff D. Johnson | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff was the administrator of the estate of Edward Schwartz, dec. Edward Schwartz was killed in an automobile accident and as a result the plaintiff was suing Johnson for his alleged negligence in the incident. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1881 | 252 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | H. H. McDonald v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 498 | 233 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1890 | Henry S. Peppen by way of Arthur Peppen v. Citizens Street Railway | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiffs sued claiming railway car ran over 17 month old Henry Peppens leg, causing permanent damage to his foot. Lawsuit was for $20,000. Plaintiffs last name is spelled several different ways in the case, including Pipin, Pipen, Pippen, and Peppen. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 527 | 123 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | Henry Wise v. Memphis Fire Insurance Patrol | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff was injured after being struck by a fire engine operated by the defendant. |
West | Range: 79 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1444 | 100 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1925 | H. T. Claxton, et al., doing business as Madison Cleaners v. Claude Ballard, by next friend James Bowman | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Other plaintiffs: R. Y. Galbreath. Ballard was 16 & Bowman, his father, was sued for $10,000 on his behalf. Ballard was hit by delivery truck belonging to cleaners. |
West | Range: 78 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1837 | 294 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Heinzman Bros. v. Frank Sullivan | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1080 | 194 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1917 | Henrietta Brown by next friend v. M. Hanover & Hanover Auto & Taxi Cab Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff is sued by her next friend, Arnetia Ratliff. The plaintiff filed the suit to recover a debt owed to her by the defendant for $5,000 for damages when she was injured through negligent operation of an automobile owned by the defendant. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1492 | 400 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | Henry Johnson v. Illinois Central Rail Road Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
In 1917, the plaintiff was riding on one of the defendant’s freight trains when they reached a point near Fowlkes, Tennessee. At that point, the conductor and brake man stopped the train, ordered the plaintiff off and he complied. The men then unlawfully fired a pistol at the plaintiff, shooting him and seriously wounding him in his left hip. Plaintiff claims the men were negligent. Suing for damages for personal injuries in the sum of $3,000. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1599 | 144 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1896 | Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Merrill A. Willy | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The defendant claims he was injured due to the railroad company supplying inappropriate pins for coupling cars, which caused his hand to be seriously damaged while performing his duties as a break man. Sues for $15,000 in damages. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 457 | 256 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Harry Xigas | Shelby | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1079 | 107 | Order A Copy |